[Tagging] building=stands or building=grandstand?

[Marco Boeringa]

I don't think arguments as "is the more generic term" are all that 
convincing in the context of OSM. There are quite a number of cases in 
OSM where a well established tag with proper documentation may not 
always have the most "appropriate" name for its key or value. I think 
the current changes by Tom are OK, based on the general knowledge of 
seeing the type of structures edited with "building=grandstand", and 
based on the original new description of the "building=stands" tag, 
including stadium photo and referring to "big tribunes". So I don't 
think these features, if tagged with "building=stands", were supposed to 
signify something entirely different from the now documented 
"building=grandstand".

And although I referred to building=stadium and building=grandstand used 
somewhat interchangeably, building=stadium is generally more used for 
entire concentric or enclosed structures including all additional 
facilities of a true sports stadium, while the building=grandstand is 
more for individual and somewhat smaller grandstand structures not 
surrounding an entire playing field.

To be honest, I would leave it for now, I think they are distinct enough 
to maintain as separate tags. As stated above, I think the current edit 
is OK in the context of what I've seen.

Marco


Op 28-10-2017 om 09:57 schreef Volker Schmidt:
> I fear we have been a bit too quick.
> It looks as if stands and grandstand are different terms for seating 
> around a sports pitch.
> The Wikipedia page "Stadium" refers several times to "stands" when it 
> talks about seating in a stadium. And the Wikpedia page "Bleacher" is 
> about "bleachers or stands", stating that these are US-English terms 
> for basic seating facilities around sports pitches
> A "grandstand" is a grand stand according to Wikipedia.
> Also an indication: a Google image search for "cricket, stands" shows 
> a number photos that I would have tagged as grandstands in OSM.
> In essence, it looks as if "stands" is the more generic term and hence 
> should not be discouraged.
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