[OSM-newbies] sport=golf vs. leisure=golf_course

[Andy Allan]

On 11/6/07, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Þórir Már Jónsson" <thorirj at isavia.is>
> To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 12:21 PM
> Subject: [OSM-newbies] sport=golf vs. leisure=golf_course
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>
> I was looking at some mapping I did a few weeks ago (see
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=64.15195&lon=-22.02729&zoom=16&layers=B0F) and
> noticed that sport=golf does not get rendered.
>
> I then did a search for golf on the map features
> page(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features) and noticed that
> there are two different methods for tagging golf courses.
>
> sport=golf (the one I used) and
> leisure=golf_course
>
> Which one should I use?  Is there any difference between the two, or is one
> of them redundant and should be removed?
>
> Best regards,
> Þórir Már
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>
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> leisure = golf_course will render in both mapnik and osmarender I believe.
> I cant see sport=golf doing anything in the rendering rules.

I think the latter is intended for tagging onto a stadium or facility,
whereas the former is for landuse. I could imagine a list of valid
sports, rendering as a row of icons (of a golfer, a rugby ball, a
tennis bat and so on), for a health club or similar.

Cheers,
Andy