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> On 23. Mar 2020, at 23:03, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > (seriously, New York > is not part of New England) pardon my ignorance ;-) > >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/474864229 > > does not use sqaure in the name and is not place=square. it looks like a square on the map and “plaza” seems a synonym for square, or not? Also this could be a square: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/39.29345/-76.60253 > > could be, but it could also just be a bit of grass. agreed, it doesn’t appear to have a name related to a square. > That's fine, but the point is not that we have zero things in the US > that meet the Euro definition of square. It is that we have many things > that have square in the name that do not, and therefore that inhabitants > of the US, or at least New England, do not relate at all to the EURO > definition of square. > > Here is the most well known thing named square in New England (six > states): > > https://osm.org/go/ZfI4p0cT9-- looks like a square and has the name, which part of the definition does not fit? > > Here's another example of someting with Square in the name that is not a > place=square > > https://osm.org/go/ZfI6Neyh0-- if we are speaking about the big parking triangle, I would see it as a square. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging