<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/09/2019 23:29, Graeme Fitzpatrick
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAP4zaXpRWFgNnTWdNAyR2Aw7paUKt3JaH=0xkMUROPD2L2jriA@mail.gmail.com">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all">
</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 03:08,
Chris Hill <<a href="mailto:osm@raggedred.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">osm@raggedred.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It's a sports hall I
think because it is marked out for various indoor
sports,e.g. badminton, volley ball, <br>
5-a-side football etc, with curtains or nets to separate
courts when <br>
needed.</blockquote>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks, Chris, that's what I was remembering from schools
in Australia, but they weren't called a sports hall -
usually Assembly Hall, as that's where the School assembles
to be addressed by the principal.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Wouldn't that description still match the definition that
Joseph quoted above though - "sports_centre: "a distinct
facility where sports take place within an enclosed area" -
which then specifically mentions "it can be a building"."?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>To me a sports centre is a place that's dedicated to sport in its
own space or grounds. It may have outdoor pitches,courts etc as
well as indoor provisions. I think it could have a gym, i.e. a
space with gym equipment too.</p>
<p>A sports hall, to me, is a building in an environment that is not
wholly about sports,so a building in school grounds or in a
business complex. It has more than just a gym room.</p>
<p>This is just my interpretation and I don't think agonising over
precise meanings is that useful. I am, however strongly against
homogenising the database. If someone describes a place as a
sports hall I am strongly against someone overwriting that as a
sports centre when they have no local knowledge, but just want to
impose a structure to the data that doesn't actually exist. We are
describing the real world which is messy, has contradictions and
inconsistencies and which we will never ever get right with
homogenous lists and restrictions. I say there as sports halls and
sports centres and there is easily room for both.</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)</pre>
</body>
</html>