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

[Kevin Kenny]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:24 AM Mateusz Konieczny
<matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
> Why not simply call anything which is a 'large public area for recreation', a park, and specify it additionally with additional tags?
>
> That would require redefining leisure=park and while would match use of word "park" in USA
> it would start mismatching use of work "park" in UK. It would also start to mismatch how
> leisure=park is used in Europe.
>
> Generally British English is preferred in OSM and redefining popular tags is deeply problematic.

Are we talking about the use of the *tag*, or the use of the *word* in
British English?

If we're talking about the use of the tag, then we get to define it,
but if it is too far removed from a word's commonly understood
meaning, we have to expect extensive mistagging.

If we're talking about the use of the word 'park' in common speech,
the British Isles have ample examples of 'park' being used in a sense
much like the US one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/359617831
happened to be the first one I noticed, but
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/421685070 and others are also
present. If these aren't 'parks' in UK English, why do they exist in
the UK with 'park' in their names?

I also notice that Great Britain has similar situations to the US
national parks, where other land uses are embedded. I see that
Cairngorms National Park
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1947603 embeds at least four
villages (Avlemore, Ballater, Grantown-on-Spey and Kingussie).