[Tagging] Ski_jump_take_off

[Richard Z.]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:33:41PM +0100, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> 2014/1/23 Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>
> 
> > * sport=* is used for something different. His intention was to describe
> > the
> >   details of a technical structure, not to say what kind of sport facility
> > it is.
> >   Would you map ski-pistest with sport=*? How?
> > * 97 is a high percentage ski jump sites that were mapped. There is no
> > reason
> >   to compare it with unrelated sports.
> > * sport=* is really lacking form many purposes, which is the reason that
> > most
> >   sports that can profit from detailed mapping don't use it. We don´t mark
> > hiking
> >   trails with sport=hiking, via ferrata's with sport=, waterways with
> > sport=kayaking.
> >
> 
> In all those cases sport=* is used to describe what sport can be played on
> a particular physical object. Sport=hiking is put on a highway=path,
> sport=kayaking is put on waterway=river.

not even mentioned in the respective pages
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Whitewater_sports

Regarding cycling, is it a sport, leisure or just a mean of transportation? 
Some ways should be marked with all three.

> Following that logic, we should have sport=ski_jumping put on a
> leisure=ski_jump_hill. sport=ski_jump_take_off makes no sense, because
> that's not a sport, that is a facility.

I think you listed two valid points in this paragraph but I don´t see
how they follow the same logic. They are just different uses for different
purposes.


Richard