<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 11, 2015, at 6:02 PM, althio <<a href="mailto:althio.forum@gmail.com" class="">althio.forum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">johnw <</span><a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">johnw@mac.com</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">The sports pitch in the middle of our local school sports stadium is also the staging grounds for wildfire fighting helicopters.<br class=""><br class="">I’m not about to add a aeroway=helipad to the field because it could be used for emergency evacuations.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I would say that is precisely what happened for using leisure=common</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">and not adding aeroway=helipad.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">i think what we’re trying to say is that (me being a bit of a noob)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">addeding leisure=common to places </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">then</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">searching for leisure=common to find landing sites </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">is not good. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">tag the area as what it is (a meadow, a farm filed, a soccer pitch, etc)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and then put a special tag you make up on it: emergency=landing_site is interesting, but make up what description meets your needs (areoway=improvised_landing_site, etc)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to find spots, search for the tag you made up rather than searching for leisure=common</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if you are just tagging leisure=common to get a rendering in OSM carto that shows up on whatever map system you’re using (printed, onscreen, etc),</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> then that isn’t good either, because a sports pitch or a meadow isn’t really a common, and tagging them as grass or a soccer pitch doesn’t have the same access privileges implied that leisure=common gives them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">your choice of landing site tags should be tagged uniquely with your tags, not by tagging everything as leisure=common.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think that is what we’re trying to say, I think.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>