<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Here is the location of the batting cage business I started mapping (they have a small cafe inside of the main building) </div><div>Across the big street is a driving range.</div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.35556/139.04995">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.35556/139.04995</a></div><div><br></div><div>Baseball=? brought up the batting cages tag in iD, so I used that. But is that really a pitch? </div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div><div><br>On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:12 PM, johnw <<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com">johnw@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">I’m trying to tag businesses in Japan, and 2 common sports businesses I have seen are Golf Driving Ranges - giant netted monstrosities that are everywhere all over Japan. I mean everywhere - there are tons of them. They are not part of a golf course, just a stand-alone business on a hill, in a field, or occasionally on top of buildings in big towns. They are often the tallest structure in a rural town. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The next is batting cages - small areas with enclosed pitching machines, arranged linearly like a driving range, but with pitching machines and a much smaller enclosed area. there are several just in my little town. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I saw there is a golf=driving_range - so I was tagging the driving range itself as a pitch and then the (sometimes 2-3 story) building that you drive from, and then finally on the commercial landuse sports=golf + golf=driving_range. (this is where the fence=net came up).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are also a lot of batting practice places - the national sport of Japan is baseball, and a common High school sport, so there are a lot of commercial (and occasionally some private) batting cages. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They are not part of a greater sports complex, but a business you go just to practice batting. There are usually pitching practice cages at baseball fields as well. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was trying to figure out how to tag a batting cage business today. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I found an old proposal for “practice pitch” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practice_pitch" class="">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practice_pitch</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">which might be good to revisit and approve, as these facilities are clearly not for the playing, but rather the practice of a specific aspect of the sport. I feel kinda guilty tagging a drivng range or a batting practice netted area as a “pitch” because only the ball collection machines go there - but it is also clearly where the practice is happening. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If this approach isn’t correct, please let me know how to tag a baseball batting practice business. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Otherwise I will try to clean up this proposal for RFC and voting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">javbw. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Tagging mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>