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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/4/20 6:40 am, Mateusz Konieczny
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<div>Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:skquinn@rushpost.com">skquinn@rushpost.com</a>:<br>
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<div>On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:<br>
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<div>Here is a 360° picture of a square in Dakar:<br>
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<div><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA">https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA</a> -
larger than a<br>
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<div>street (it occupies a whole city block), used as a
multipurpose common<br>
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<div>area (pickup soccer games are a staple but parking or
lounging around<br>
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<div>also occur, and the occasional popular event) and usually
surfaced with<br>
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<div>sand or whatever the ground is.<br>
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<div>We have long tagged it leisure=common (389 ways in
Senegal and 486 in<br>
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<div>Mali according to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN</a>) - which
is a bit of<br>
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<div>stretch from the British legal definition, but worked
well enough and<br>
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<div>did not conflict with its British usage. But
leisure=common is now<br>
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<div>deprecated<br>
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<div>So, what should we use instead ?<br>
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<div><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon</a>
suggests using<br>
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<div>leisure=park - which isn't too much of a stretch
functionally but evokes<br>
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<div>greenery that does not occur here (though British commons
are just as<br>
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<div>green and we were happy with leisure=common)... Any other
ideas ? Or I'm<br>
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<div>going to use leisure=park+surface=sand !<br>
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<div>While leisure=park might work, there is also
leisure=recreation_ground<br>
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<div>leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without
baggage of legal<br>
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<div>status bundled into leisure=commons<br>
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<p>It may look like sports are played there to you and me. <br>
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<p>It may resemble a park to others. <br>
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<p>However none of those may be the case!</p>
<p>Or it may not be the primary use. Simply viewing it without local
knowledge may well cause errors!<br>
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<p>The local mapper should say what the area is primarily used for
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<p>It may be used for a weekly market (some 'weeks' are 6 days in
Africa). <br>
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<p>It may be used for social/political gatherings. <br>
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<p>The surface is not grass. I would hesitate to call it sand, could
be ground. In any case 'unpaved' could be used. <br>
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