<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Today whilst moving bugs over from OpenStreetBugs I noticed that the <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2259914">Silverstone GP circuit</a> is tagged leisure=sports_centre and <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/111342905">Huntingdon Racecourse</a> is tagged with leisure=track.<br>
<br></div>Whereas it is true that Silverstone is a centre for a sport, my understanding is that leisure=sports_centre is usually used to map buildings, usually run by councils, which offer a range of facilities for different sports. Associated playing fields are usually mapped as leisure=recreation_ground.<br>
<br></div><div>Similarly leisure=track is comprehensible to me, but would not make sense to any automated processing of tag values.<br></div><div><br></div>I've muttered before about how extending the meaning of a tag usually degrades the tags value. In this case indiscriminate use of sports_centre means that OSM no longer becomes suitable for examining things like access to sports facilites by the general public.<br>
<br></div>The other thing that this highlights is the potential need for a generic landuse type tag for areas devoted to some sporting purpose. I've noted this before in the US where people have taken to marking the in-bound areas of a ski resort with leisure=recreation_ground.<br>
<br></div>Any thoughts,<br><br></div>Jerry<br></div>