Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-06 Thread Steve Bennett
Fwiw, I tag them all "park". Is there any legal difference? It occurs to me that many gardens have fences and gates and are only open during certain hours, but I don't know if that's a general property. Note that most of the parks in central Melbourne are called "garden" (Flagstaff Gardens, Treasu

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread Stephen Hope
It's a borderline case. There is always going to be some that are a bit of both. This one in particular isn't the main Botanical gardens for Brisbane any more, that's out near Mt Coot-tha. That one is more what I think of as Botanical Gardens, this one is more what I think of as a park. I'd be h

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
ubject: Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden On 4 June 2010 11:14, Roy Wallace wrote: > Ok, clear enough: if it is themed or has themed sections, it's a > public garden, otherwise it's a public park. Plus the name is a bit of a give away :) _

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2010 11:14, Roy Wallace wrote: > Ok, clear enough: if it is themed or has themed sections, it's a > public garden, otherwise it's a public park. Plus the name is a bit of a give away :) ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http:

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 4 June 2010 08:39, Roy Wallace wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:34 PM, John Smith >> wrote: >>> >>> public parks are usually big open spaces, public gardens are often >>> themed and or run by botanical societies etc... >> >> Using that

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 June 2010 08:39, Roy Wallace wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:34 PM, John Smith wrote: >> >> public parks are usually big open spaces, public gardens are often >> themed and or run by botanical societies etc... > > Using that definition, what would you call the Brisbane City Botanic > Gard

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:34 PM, John Smith wrote: > > public parks are usually big open spaces, public gardens are often > themed and or run by botanical societies etc... Using that definition, what would you call the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, then? http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE::

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread John Smith
On 3 June 2010 23:21, André Riedel wrote: > What is the difference between a public garden and a park? public parks are usually big open spaces, public gardens are often themed and or run by botanical societies etc... ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@o

Re: [Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:21 PM, André Riedel wrote: > > What is the difference between a public garden and a park? > > Like you, I don't know but I don't care : if the municipality call it a 'public garden', I'll tag it as 'public garden'. If the municipality call it a 'park', I'll tag it as 'par

[Tagging] difference between park and garden

2010-06-03 Thread André Riedel
I have a question according to the garden proposal . What is the difference between a public garden and a park? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park Ciao André ___