Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-23 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 23/10/20 3:38 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: You could also find (shock, horror!) that that tag has been used for rendering purposes. Or, even more shockingly, the tag has been used because they are nature reserves. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 12:25, Greg Lauer wrote: > It does seem that leisure=nature_reserve is common. > You could also find (shock, horror!) that that tag has been used for rendering purposes. & Steve, to not help matters at all :-) You also park your car in a car park! Thanks Graeme

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
Greg's description matches mine. Used for recreation, not conservation, usually just grass, maybe a few trees scattered, sometimes there could be a playground there, maybe benches, maybe bbqs, ie. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=park. National Parks, Marine Parks etc would be

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Thank you for a representative data sample, Greg! I find a couple / few things things interesting that shake out so far: > I will leave the nuances of tagging National parks and protected areas to > those much more experienced than me Most interesting, maybe even revealing: we shouldn’t

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread Greg Lauer
Hi Steve I will leave the nuances of tagging National parks and protected areas to those much more experienced than me (most of my tagging is roads and trails) but happy to illustrate some examples. It does seem that leisure=nature_reserve is common. 1. Great Sandy National Park -

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian, English?

2020-10-22 Thread Warren
On 23/10/2020 9:26 am, talk-au-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Subject: Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English? I would agree with Greg on this.  I think a Park is a Natural or Recreational area within a city or Town.  They can also be National Pa

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Not muddy at all, your clarifications are excellent. Much obliged, mate! SteveA On Oct 22, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Greg Lauer wrote: > Good question > > To be clear I am a Kiwi (New Zealand) who lives in Australia (and has spent > many years in the US) so my interpretation may be slightly

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread Greg Lauer
Good question To be clear I am a Kiwi (New Zealand) who lives in Australia (and has spent many years in the US) so my interpretation may be slightly muddled In general I consider a 'Park' to be a local area, generally managed by the city or shire (county). Playgrounds, gardens, dog walking

[talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Hi, it's stevea from California. Some of us in the USA are crafting a proposal (https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Park_boundary), may be two or three staged proposals, intended to better express the wide inclusive semantic "we" (OSM-wide, but including US English-speakers) mean for