[Tagging] Practice pitch?

[Brad Neuhauser]

Personally I'd probably include leisure=pitch. Maybe for some people, the
batting cage is the game? :)

I think baseball=batting_cage makes sense (like golf's driving range). The
golf example doesn't make clear whether it'd be best to include the sport
tag too. I'm inclined to include sport=baseball too, then one query could
get baseball diamonds as well as batting cages.

Cheers,
Brad

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:24 AM, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:

> Here is the location of the batting cage business I started mapping (they
> have a small cafe inside of the main building)
> Across the big street is a driving range.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.35556/139.04995
>
> Baseball=? brought up the batting cages tag in iD, so I used that. But is
> that really a pitch?
>
> Javbw
>
> On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:12 PM, johnw <johnw at mac.com> wrote:
>
> I’m trying to tag businesses in Japan, and 2 common sports businesses I
> have seen are Golf Driving Ranges  - giant netted monstrosities that are
> everywhere all over Japan. I mean everywhere - there are tons of them.
> They are not part of a golf course, just a stand-alone business on a hill,
> in a field, or occasionally on top of buildings in big towns.  They are
> often the tallest structure in a rural town.
>
> The next is batting cages - small areas with enclosed pitching machines,
> arranged linearly like a driving range, but with pitching machines and a
> much smaller enclosed area. there are several just in my little town.
>
> I saw there is a golf=driving_range - so I was tagging the driving range
> itself as a pitch and then the (sometimes 2-3 story) building that you
> drive from, and then finally on the commercial landuse sports=golf +
> golf=driving_range. (this is where the fence=net came up).
>
> There are also a lot of batting practice places - the national sport of
> Japan is baseball, and a common High school sport, so there are a lot of
> commercial (and occasionally some private) batting cages.
>
> They are not part of a greater sports complex, but a business you go just
> to practice batting.  There are usually pitching practice cages at baseball
> fields as well.
>
> I was trying to figure out how to tag a batting cage business today.
>
> I found an old proposal for “practice pitch”
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practice_pitch
>
>
> which might be good to revisit and approve, as these facilities are
> clearly not for the playing, but rather the practice of a specific aspect
> of the sport.  I feel kinda guilty tagging a drivng range or a batting
> practice netted area as a “pitch” because only the ball collection machines
> go there - but it is also clearly where the practice is happening.
>
>
> If this approach isn’t correct, please let me know how to tag a baseball
> batting practice business.
>
> Otherwise I will try to clean up this proposal for RFC and voting.
>
>
> javbw.
>
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