[Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

[brad]

Agreed.
'National Park' is very specific.   We have national parks and we have 
state, county, regional ... parks.

National:
*: *belonging to or maintained by the federal government

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/national


On 4/27/19 8:06 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 18:35 Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com 
> <mailto:gdt at lexort.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think the entire "national_park" tag is unfortunate, as it wraps
>     up a
>     lot of concepts that vary by country, and makes people understand
>     things
>     when they don't.  In the US, it should mean "preserve the land while
>     allowing access and enjoyment", there is a notion that the place is
>     relatively distinguished, and it doesn't really have a connotation of
>     size.
>
>
> I agree, the national_park tag is rather unfortunate, some other tag 
> should be used to connote state or national parks in an easily 
> distinguishable fashion while not making it excessively difficult to 
> find parks in general. With the existing national park tag, I'd use it 
> for national (US and indian tribal), but not state parks.
>
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