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

[brad]

On 4/29/19 4:11 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> brad <bradhaack at fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> It seems that plain language can be used here, and from the Oxford
>> dictionary, a park is:
> No.  Plain language cannot be used to define what tags mean.  Each tag
> is actually a codepoint, not human language, and needs a definition.
> That is fundamental to how tagging works in OSM.
Agreed, but the tag language should be close to human language where 
possible
>
>> Why not simply call anything which is a 'large public area for
>> recreation', a park, and specify it additionally with additional tags?
> Because we have existing norms, and it is not generally a good idea to
> ask that tagging of thousands of objects be thrown out and redone.
OK, but I think that's what you're asking for if county parks, state 
parks, and large city parks can't be tagged as parks.