[Tagging] Adding leisure=sports_hall to leisure=sports_centre page

[Chris Hill]

On 05/09/2019 23:29, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 03:08, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net 
> <mailto:osm at raggedred.net>> wrote:
>
>     It's a sports hall I think because it is marked out for various
>     indoor sports,e.g. badminton, volley ball,
>     5-a-side football etc, with curtains or nets to separate courts when
>     needed.
>
>
> Thanks, Chris, that's what I was remembering from schools in 
> Australia, but they weren't called a sports hall - usually Assembly 
> Hall, as that's where the School assembles to be addressed by the 
> principal.
>
> Wouldn't that description still match the definition that Joseph 
> quoted above though - "sports_centre: "a distinct facility where 
> sports take place within an enclosed area" - which then specifically 
> mentions "it can be a building"."?
>
>
To me a sports centre is a place that's dedicated to sport in its own 
space or grounds. It may have outdoor pitches,courts etc as well as 
indoor provisions. I think it could have a gym, i.e. a space with gym 
equipment too.

A sports hall, to me, is a building in an environment that is not wholly 
about sports,so a building in school grounds or in a business complex. 
It has more than just a gym room.

This is just my interpretation and I don't think agonising over precise 
meanings is that useful. I am, however strongly against homogenising the 
database. If someone describes a place as a sports hall I am strongly 
against someone overwriting that as a sports centre when they have no 
local knowledge, but just want to impose a structure to the data that 
doesn't actually exist. We are describing the real world which is messy, 
has contradictions and inconsistencies and which we will never ever get 
right with homogenous lists and restrictions. I say there as sports 
halls and sports centres and there is easily room for both.

-- 
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)

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