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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by skquinn at rushpost.com:

> 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.
>

leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without baggage of legal
status bundled into leisure=commons

This specific place looks like leisure=pitch. And for example in Poland some 
sport pitch may be used for an occasional  event, festival of various types.

Note: I am unfamiliar with on-the-ground situation in Africa
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