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

[Warin]

On 30/4/20 6:40 am, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
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> Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by skquinn at rushpost.com:
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>     On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
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>         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.
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>         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
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>         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 !
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>     While leisure=park might work, there is also leisure=recreation_ground
>     to consider.
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> leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without baggage 
> of legal
> status bundled into leisure=commons


It may look like sports are played there to you and me.

It may resemble a park to others.

However none of those may be the case!

Or it may not be the primary use. Simply viewing it without local 
knowledge may well cause errors!


The local mapper should say what the area is primarily used for ..

It may be used for a weekly market (some 'weeks' are 6 days in Africa).

It may be used for social/political gatherings.


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The surface is not grass. I would hesitate to call it sand, could be 
ground. In any case 'unpaved' could be used.

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