[OSM-talk] Rejected: Landuse=green_space

[Lester Caine]

Anthony wrote:
> On 6/11/07, *David Earl* <david at frankieandshadow.com 
> <mailto:david at frankieandshadow.com>> wrote:
> 
>     This is the kind of situation I'm trying to deal with:
>     http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=52.22672412022378&lon=0.12798235
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=52.22672412022378&lon=0.12798235>
>     246826553&zoom=17
>     (the green area with Nicholson Way footways)
> 
> 
> Why doesn't the term "park" describe that?  In your other message you 
> mention "the island in the middle of a group of houses".  I can see not 
> calling that a "park", as it's really more of a "courtyard".  But the 
> link you give shows an area which isn't enclosed by houses, but only has 
> buildings bordering it on one side.  I'd have no problem calling that a 
> "park".
> 
>     Here's a not particularly good photo of it (not mine!).
>     http://www.camcycle.org.uk/map/location/3865/
>     It's not a park, just an area of grassed open space with a few
>     shrubs in the
>     middle of urban streets, but park is the closest we have at present.

I'd tent to agree with that.
The reason *I* would not support green_space is BECAUSE it has specific 
meaning already and trying to define it differently is pointless.
The one think we NEED to do as a mater of urgency is pin down a small set of 
predefined names for things and stick to it. The 'protocol' may allow 
everybody to use their own favourite term for things without any limitation, 
but I STILL maintain that SOME level of restriction on the basic keys should 
be MANAGED, so that we are required to use the terms that are already being 
rendered?

( And I STILL forget to hit Reply All on the few lists that insist on THAT 
rule but aren't prepared to allow constructive ones :( )

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