Strangely there is no place type for parks. Currently most parks seem to be marked as either “Land Feature” or “Open Space”, neither of which is really appropriate. This has been brought up on the forum a couple times before, but never addressed by iNat staff AFAIK. It seems like a strange oversight as we have place types for Airport, City Building, Intersection, Estate, and lots of others that are probably never used, but nothing for parks, which is probably one of the most common types of places created on iNaturalist. Does the list come from some external controlled vocabulary? Or could we just add “Park”?
This was submitted as a feature request, but it doesn’t seem to be one, so I changed the category to general.
I mean, I think this is a feature request, just not worded as one. The user appears to be asking for the specific creation of a “Park” tag as one of the possibilities in the places. Not sure how useful it would be, since I don’t think there’s a way to search by specific place type, but I’m not one to ask on that.
Yes, this is a feature request. I changed the title from “Place type Park” to “Add place type Park” to make it more obvious.
Since this doesn’t have the feature request template filled out, it would be rejected as a feature request. I’ve unlisted and will close. Please resubmit as a feature request with the required elements.
Also keep in mind from lists of Feature Requests that aren’t currently being accepted
I’m not sure if this would fall under that but staff might decline on that basis.