[Tagging] With leisure=common deprecated, Senegal & Mali need a replacement

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at rushpost.com
Wed Apr 29 19:37:55 UTC 2020


On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> Here is a 360° picture of a square in Dakar:
> https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA - larger than a
> street (it occupies a whole city block), used as a multipurpose common
> area (pickup soccer games are a staple but parking or lounging around
> also occur, and the occasional popular event) and usually surfaced with
> sand or whatever the ground is.
> 
> We have long tagged it leisure=common (389 ways in Senegal and 486 in
> Mali according to http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN) - which is a bit of
> stretch from the British legal definition, but worked well enough and
> did not conflict with its British usage. But leisure=common is now
> deprecated
> 
> So, what should we use instead ?
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon suggests using
> leisure=park - which isn't too much of a stretch functionally but evokes
> greenery that does not occur here (though British commons are just as
> green and we were happy with leisure=common)... Any other ideas ? Or I'm
> going to use leisure=park+surface=sand !

While leisure=park might work, there is also leisure=recreation_ground
to consider.

Why exactly was leisure=common deprecated? I used it quite a bit on
OpenGeoFiction (which follows OSM's lead for the data model).

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