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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by skquinn@rushpost.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Here is a 360° picture of a square in Dakar:<br></div><div>https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA - larger than a<br></div><div>street (it occupies a whole city block), used as a multipurpose common<br></div><div>area (pickup soccer games are a staple but parking or lounging around<br></div><div>also occur, and the occasional popular event) and usually surfaced with<br></div><div>sand or whatever the ground is.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We have long tagged it leisure=common (389 ways in Senegal and 486 in<br></div><div>Mali according to http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN) - which is a bit of<br></div><div>stretch from the British legal definition, but worked well enough and<br></div><div>did not conflict with its British usage. But leisure=common is now<br></div><div>deprecated<br></div><div><br></div><div>So, what should we use instead ?<br></div><div>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon suggests using<br></div><div>leisure=park - which isn't too much of a stretch functionally but evokes<br></div><div>greenery that does not occur here (though British commons are just as<br></div><div>green and we were happy with leisure=common)... Any other ideas ? Or I'm<br></div><div>going to use leisure=park+surface=sand !<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While leisure=park might work, there is also leisure=recreation_ground<br></div><div>to consider.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without baggage of legal<br></div><div>status bundled into leisure=commons<br></div><div><br></div><div>This specific place looks like leisure=pitch. And for example in Poland some <br></div><div>sport pitch may be used for an occasional event, festival of various types.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Note: I am unfamiliar with on-the-ground situation in Africa<br></div> </body>
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