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

[Warin]

On 30/4/20 8:08 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 11:59 Uhr schrieb Warin 
> <61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>:
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>     On 30/4/20 7:29 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>>     Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 11:18 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier
>>     <jm at liotier.org <mailto:jm at liotier.org>>:
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>>         The concept they are closest to is "plaza"
>>         (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza) - which, by the way,
>>         does not seem
>>         to have currency in Openstreetmap.
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>>     place=square
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>     Needs to have a name, many of these have no names.
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> if these are significant open areas that are used for recreation and 
> to meet each other, it seems improbable that they do not have names. 
> Can you back your claim with real world examples?


Not my claim .. but


On 30/4/20 10:06 am, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> On 4/30/20 12:20 AM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
>> place=square seems to fit the bill
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> place=square exists within the place=* hierarchy which , as documented 
> in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place, is used to 
> characterize named locations. What we tag here is almost always unnamed.
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> Our goal is to record the nature of that space - and most importantly 
> its functionality as a common free space.
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Note the statement "What we tag here is almost always unnamed." Fairly 
clear to me.


I also would not say 'used for recreation' as that may not be true in 
all situations.

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