[OSM-talk] Several approved features moved to Map_features page

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:41:16PM -0000, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> Village greens are a _subset_ of commons. I agree, most people could

Probably - I don't know the legal definition. Certainly they are both land that
the public have access to.

> In which case, you'll be defining an area of (usually) grassy common
> land somewhere NOT necessarily in the middle of a village (perhaps even

I would usually expect a village green to be an area of mown grass, usually used
for leisure. A common could be the above, but is often also an area of land that
sheep or other animals graze on (probably more the historical use). Therefore
they are different IMHO.

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Matthew