[Tagging] sports_centre

[Philip Barnes]

Sports centres are usually big, often municipal with a swimming pool and the like.
In the UK the smaller places you are describing would be called gyms.

Phil

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On 16/07/2012 9:07 Frederik Ramm wrote:

Hi,


I think there is a discrepancy between what the Mapnik style authors 
believe a "sports_centre" is and what (at least German) mappers believe.


Here in Germany, most health clubs (German: "Fitnesscenter" - a place 
where you go to work out on a treadmill or indoor rower or stuff like 
that) are tagged as leisure=sports_centre, even if they only occupy a 
standard-size shop/office floor. At the same time, whoever put that tag 
on the Mapnik map seemed to have in mind a relatively large 
installation, maybe a stadium or a multi-sports facility because these 
sports_centre objects are shown from z15 on.


This leads to a relatively strange map display on zoom level 15 where it 
looks like these health clubs are important landmarks in the cityscape, e.g.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.00699&lon=8.40329&zoom=15&layers=M


("Venice Beach Fitness", "Johnny M" - the only reason we don't see more 
of them is the name collision with street names.)


I'd like to hear from others - is sports_centre the usual tag for such 
establishments and if so, should we maybe downgrade the rendering to z16?


Bye
Frederik

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