[OSM-talk] Village greens are not commons - official

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Having a tag for "a grassy spot inside a village where the local
>population have access" or something might be more or less universal,
>but any more detail and you soon have to add special tags for the
>idiosyncracies of every cultural region in Europe and the world!

Is that not a good thing though? The advantage of having specific tags for 
specific countries means that OSM can indeed be truly international, 
rather than overly generic. Different renderers specified for different 
countries can then render or ignore tags as they please.

Nick