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

[brad]

Agreed, emphasis in Kevin's text is mine.
It looks like some of this redefinition of the park tag is new?   ie the 
human sculpted part, and the attempt to restrict the usage. Perhaps 
clarity is needed, but more narrowly defined than the Oxford dictionary, 
or common usage, is not needed.

On 4/29/19 12:38 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
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> Using a British dictionary (Living Oxford Dictionary), the first
> definition of 'park' is:
>
> 1 A large public garden or area of land used for recreation.
> ‘a walk round the park’
> ‘a country park’
>
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/park
>
> The 'or public garden' implies that the area *may* be human sculpted,
> but there is no separate definition to encompass 'regional park'.
> There is a separate entry for 'national park', and under 'park' there
> are entries to cover the 'park' of a country house, a 'wildlife park',
> 'park' as another word for 'playground', 'park' as an informal word
> for 'football pitch' (borrowed from the American usage) and the
> Americanism 'sports park' - and then a second sense of any area
> devoted to a specific purpose ('industrial park', 'office park'), plus
> a third designating the 'park' position of the gear selector on an
> automatic transmission.
>
> I'm fine with 'leisure=park' being more specific, but we have to be 
> very clear what we mean because it's more restrictive than even UK 
> English (to say nothing of CANZUS, where 'park' for the large regional 
> parks is surely common), and we have to expect mistagging, 
> particularly in light of the fact that the rest of the 
> English-speaking world has tagged a lot of parks with the looser 
> language that used to be on the Wiki.
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