Re: Eurocentrism, incorrect unit abbreviations, and proprietary Royalist Engish (sic) terms

Those definitions make perfect sense to me. After all, you pitch a tent, you don’t ground a tent. You might ground your kids when they have pitched a tent on the green of a golf course, though :-)

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> On 5 Jul 2018, at 15:12, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Since I care more about "Getting things done"...
> 
> As to the Campsite/Campground ... the USA and its government is fairly clear and standardized on a Campground being the larger area and individual reservable "pitchs" as being called "campsites".  The NPS.gov has the data available as well with annual campsite bookings.  Here's one example:  https://www.nps.gov/maca/planyourvisit/campgrounds.htm
>  <https://www.nps.gov/maca/planyourvisit/campgrounds.htm>
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> And Texas and other states started "campsite" or "camping pitch" specific booking system just this year. https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/park-reservation-information/site-specific-booking <https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/park-reservation-information/site-specific-booking>
> 
> So we probably could make mention about "campsite" and "campground" in the definition to improve things.  So let's at least do that to make things clear on both sides. :-)
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> A camping pitch (in the USA, a campsite) is an individual place for overnight stay in the outdoors, typically being part of a larger camping site or campground.
> 
> @Richard - would you mind doing that to improve the definition a bit ?
> 
> -Thad
> 

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