[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[Richard Welty]

On 6/28/10 7:46 PM, Liz wrote:
>
> I don't have a problem with marking what sports are played where. I don't have
> a complaint about being accurate with tagging, but sometimes I have to prefer
> one use of an area over another, because we cannot parallel tag with this API.
>
> Considering the use for the data
> If I travel to Town X and use my Garmin machine with OSM map, can I find the
> cricket oval in time for the match?
> Will the search allow me to identify the correct destination, or will I have a
> choice of places which I have to check to see the correct game being played?
>    
in my experience, most fields (or complexes of fields) have names, and 
directions
to a particular field usually invoke the name. so we should definitely 
be providing
names for fields/arenas that have them.

richard