[Tagging] HOT: potential Helicopter landings leisure=common

johnw johnw at mac.com
Mon May 11 10:43:51 UTC 2015


> On May 11, 2015, at 6:02 PM, althio <althio.forum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> johnw <johnw at mac.com <mailto:johnw at mac.com>> wrote:
>> The sports pitch in the middle of our local school sports stadium is also the staging grounds for wildfire fighting helicopters.
>> 
>> I’m not about to add a aeroway=helipad to the field because it could be used for emergency evacuations.
> 
> I would say that is precisely what happened for using leisure=common
> and not adding aeroway=helipad.


i think what we’re trying to say is that (me being a bit of a noob)

addeding leisure=common to places 

then

searching for leisure=common to find landing sites 

is not good. 


tag the area as what it is (a meadow, a farm filed, a soccer pitch, etc)

and then put a special tag you make up on it: emergency=landing_site is interesting, but make up what description meets your needs (areoway=improvised_landing_site, etc)

to find spots, search for the tag you made up rather than searching for leisure=common


if you are just tagging leisure=common to get a rendering in OSM carto that shows up on whatever map system you’re using (printed, onscreen, etc),

 then that isn’t good either, because a sports pitch or a meadow isn’t really a common, and tagging them as grass or a soccer pitch doesn’t have the same access privileges implied that leisure=common gives them.

your choice of landing site tags should be tagged uniquely with your tags, not by tagging everything as leisure=common.

I think that is what we’re trying to say, I think.

Javbw


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