The one in Builth Wells has various component parts marked as sportsgrounds,
but the general area is marked as "amenity=festival grounds". The wiki says
that festival grounds are "A permanent open field facility which is mostly used
for public events and festivals." and gives the example of some song festival
spaces in the Baltics.
*
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=festival%20grounds?uselang=en-GB
* https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/93280648#map=16/52.1574/-3.4031
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, at 11:33 AM, Philip Barnes wrote:
> The West Midlands showgroung is tagged as amenity=showground.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
> On Monday, 24 February 2020, SK53 wrote:
> > I asked similar questions about 6 months ago:
> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2019-September/023452.html
> > ,
> > and there are other discussions going back some 10 years:
> > http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=5167127&query=showground&n=5167127
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 09:58, Mark Goodge <m...@good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Morning all,
> > >
> > > Someone has commented on a change I made to the Three Counties
> > > showground last year when I changed the tagging to landuse=grass rather
> > > than landuse=commercial. Their suggestion is that it really ought to be
> > > landuse=recreation_ground, with a secondary tag of surface=grass.
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/74103491#map=16/52.0834/-2.3235
> > >
> > > I've responded to that comment on the changeset, but I thought it would
> > > be worth throwing out here as well.
> > >
> > > I do think that tagging showgrounds as landuse=commercial is generally
> > > incorrect; it doesn't match the description of 'commercial' in the wiki
> > > and doesn't reflect the typical uses of showgrounds both when a show is
> > > on and when one isn't.
> > >
> > > The reason I tagged the Three Counties showground as grass is because,
> > > most of the year, that's precisely what it is - an open area of
> > > grassland. Unless there is an event on (which only happens for a
> > > minority of days in a year) it is just an open space.
> > >
> > > Looking at a few other showgrounds across the country, we don't seem to
> > > have any consistency.
> > >
> > > The East of England Showground is tagged as landuse=recreation_ground:
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.5456/-0.3170
> > >
> > > The Suffolk Showground is tagged as a park:
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.0330/1.2277
> > >
> > > So is the Staffordshire County Showgound:
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.8255/-2.0643
> > >
> > > The former Royal Showground at Stoneleigh is tagged as commercial, but
> > > in that case that's probably now correct as it's no longer used as a
> > > showground and is gradually being redeveloped as a business park:
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/52.3435/-1.5220
> > >
> > > The Great Yorkshire Showground isn't tagged as an area at all, just a
> > > network of roads and individual features:
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.9830/-1.5065
> > >
> > > Similarly with the Norfolk Showground
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.6490/1.1793
> > >
> > > And the Bath and West Showground:
> > >
> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.1552/-2.5265
> > >
> > > So, what do people think? Personally, I think that showgrounds ought to
> > > be tagged as an area, because they do, typically, have clear boundaries
> > > and are distinct from their surrounding context. But I'm less sure what
> > > the area should be tagged as. I think commercial is usually wrong, for
> > > the reasons I've already given, but I can see an argument for either
> > > grass, recreation_ground or even park.
> > >
> > > Thoughts, anyone?
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
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> >
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