* Marc Zoutendijk <marczoutend...@mac.com> [170108 21:02]:
>> Op 8 jan. 2017, om 20:20 heeft Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> het volgende 
>> geschreven:

>> Based on usage in the United States, it sure sounds like leisure=park is the 
>> tag to use for what you are describing. I see nothing in the wiki page [1] 
>> for park that indicates it must be a minimum size, have a wall, a discrete 
>> entrance or that it has to have a name.  There are a lot of areas local to 
>> me called parks, that are tagged with leisure=park and which do not have 
>> fences/walls/or gates. And some of the smaller ones (colloquially called 
>> “mini-parks”) don’t seem to have names either.

> To me a park is some place that you gan "go into”. E.g." let’s go out for a 
> stroll in the park.”

> The wiki:

> "Typically open to the public, but may be fenced off, and may be temporarily 
> closed e.g. at night time.”

> But i’m talking also about the areas that you find also in the middle of a 
> roundabout.
> Adn I wouldn’t call an area of 14m2 between two sections of a highway, 
> covered with grass and some flowers a “park”.

> No, there really must be something better (I hope) to describe this sort of 
> landuse.

The process of creating and maintaining these green spaces would be called
"urban landscaping" as far as I know. Unfortunately I can't find a better
word for these areas than "green spaces".

Wolfgang

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