I think the table is basically correct. I added showers, amended the pitches and added access hours. In Europe it is very common that no pitches are defined. Staffing=yes means that during at least defined period of the day (say 7:00-10:00 and 16:00-20:00). Usually you are not able to register beyond these hours. Guarded depends on the region: in Europe usually not, in Africa definitely yes.
Standard Designated Trekking Informal Fee Significant No/Nominal No/Nominal No Toilets Yes Possibly No No Showers Yes, usually hot No No No Power Usually Rarely No No Water Yes Sometimes Maybe No Washing Usually Rarely No No Staff Yes Rarely No No Pitches Yes/No Rarely No No Official Yes Yes Usually No Access Restricted hours 24/7 24/7 24/7 *To me, and I think others agree, designated means official. Any place where people camp in a specially prepared environment has been "designated" at some point, either by the government or a business owner; designated to be a campground. To base an entire category on this term is misleading IMO.* I see your point, but do we have a better phrase? Basic? Overnight? *@Jan - yes, I suppose the camping areas I'm talking about could be category #2 if you get rid of the adjective "nominal" for the fee. Just say they "may be free or charge a fee" because these days camping fees are anything but nominal, at least in my opinion.* OK *I say get rid of #6 entirely. Tagging an entire state as an area where camping is permitted, like Alaska, is problematical at best.* OK *I am happy with "camp_site=informal" (unlike Martin), pretty much says what it is supposed to say. I expect it would be rendered differently or not at all in most cases. We could make that clearer in the text ?* I can see Martin's point. It is like the fuel discussion: you don't want to mix the regular filling stations and the drums. *And just live with it like that ? I really like the category approach but worry that we are not going to make it work. What would need to happen is to improve the documentation for the tourism=camp_site and, then, maybe fill in a few missing tags. That interestingly, is where we were some months ago and saw the spin out of sanitary_dump_station= and waste= proposals.* In any case I want to keep the separation between designated (in the broader sense), non designated (not much discussed here, but for me the most important reason to start the topic) and informal. We could decide to recombine the current *Standard*, *Designated *and *Trekking.* Indeed we could leave the other details to attributes. Regards, Jan Met vriendelijke groet/with kind regards, *Jan van Bekkum* www.DeEinderVoorbij.nl
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