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

[Greg Troxel]

Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> writes:

> With regard to British English usage, I think you're
> correct*. Something described here as a "park" would pretty much match
> the current description at
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dpark (without the
> urban requirement, but you've already talked about that).  In the UK a
> "national park" (or something like the Pentland Hills Regional Park
> which was already mentioned) isn't really a subset of "park" in any
> way - it's something else altogether.

So it seems that the definition of leisure=park we have converged on in
the US matches more or less leisure=park and what humans mean when
speaking en_UK.  That seems like a very sane place to be.