[Tagging] Definition of Sport

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Fr., 24. Mai 2019 um 15:55 Uhr schrieb Markus <selfishseahorse at gmail.com
>:

> I personally like the definition by the European Sports Charter
> (article 2, paragraph 1a):
>
>    "Sport" means all forms of physical activity which, through casual
> or organised participation, aim at expressing or improving physical
> fitness and mental well-being, forming social relationships or
> obtaining results in competition at all levels.



what about shooting or chess? Chess clearly isn't a physical activity,
while for shooting there may be discussion.
The council of Europe also cites snooker along with chess as sports [1],
probably darts would fit well in this list too ;-)

Are they all included because of "or obtaining results in competitions"?
What about competitive binge drinking, it is a physical activity, may be
organized and aiming at expressing physical fitness.
Seriously, we do not need to define what "sport" is, we will be voting with
our feet.
All accepted values are here:
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sport#values (plus what is missing)
certainly frequent tags should be preferred over those on the hundreds of
pages with tags of only 1 occurence

Cheers,
Martin



[1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/compass/sports-for-all
"people may say that exclusion and discrimination are not really big issues
because people tend to choose sports that they are naturally good at. For
example, tall people may play basketball and less energetic types may play
snooker or chess. "
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