As a local, I think it should be tagged as commercial. There is some event there most weeks. It's a very commercial organisation.
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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