On Wed May 6 08:23:34 2015 GMT+0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
> On 06/05/2015 03:54, David Bannon wrote:
> > Anyway, the issue is, perhaps confusion in some minds about =camp_site 
> > and =caravan_site. Most (but not all) camp_sites will also take 
> > caravans and RV's. But Tourism=caravan_site is for the caravan ONLY 
> > type of place.
> 
> Here (in the UK) I'd differentiate such places locally as to whether 
> they appear to be "mostly" for tents or caravans (there tend to be fewer 
> motorhomes - what the Americans call RVs - over here than caravans).  
> Another differentiator might be the organisation that the site is part 
> of.  If it's "The Caravan Club" it's more likely to be mostly for 
> caravans than tents.  However there seems to be more overlap between 
> camping and caravanning organisations and sites now than there used to 
> be, so in some cases either tag could apply equally.
> 
+1

One of the biggest issues I see is that the mapper has to choose between 
tourism=caravan_site and tourism=campsite,  when the vast majority of 
commercial sites cater for both.

Phil (trigpoint )
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