[Tagging] What sport=* for automobile racing?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun Sep 1 12:20:48 UTC 2019


On 9/1/19 12:12 AM, Warin wrote:
> 
> On 31/8/19 9:49 am, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
>> With highway=raceway, the most common tags are sport=motor,
>> sport=motocross and sport=karting (and even some sport=rc_car for
>> remote controlled model cars). These are specific types of motorsport,
>> except for "sport=motor", which can include automobiles, motorcycles
>> and go-karts, so it's not very specific. 
> 
> Reason: Some tracks accept racing from all different kinds of motor vehicles e.g. trucks, cars and motorcycles. 
> 
>> There's also some uses of
>> sport=speedway which is also unclear.
> 
> Speedway is a oval dirt course that is usually used by cars and motorcycles. 

in some national contexts, sure. the definition in the US is not that
restrictive.

richard
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