[Tagging] What sport=* for automobile racing?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun Sep 1 15:17:28 UTC 2019


On 9/1/19 8:20 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 9/1/19 12:12 AM, Warin wrote:
>>
>> On 31/8/19 9:49 am, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:

>>> 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.

on reflection, a better solution (i think) is to just use surface tags
that already exist. if you want query terms you could add

circuit_type={oval|road_course|drag}

and perhaps off road, although road_course+dirt might suffice.

richard
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