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

[Mark Wagner]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:08:22 +0200
Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 11:59 Uhr schrieb Warin
> <61sundowner at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On 30/4/20 7:29 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 11:18 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Liotier <  
> > jm at liotier.org>:  
> >  
> >> 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.  
> >
> >
> >
> > place=square
> >
> > Needs to have a name, many of these have no names.
> >  
> 
> 
> 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?

In most of the world, things only get names when there's some ambiguity
about which one is being referred to.  Real-world example from North
America: when I was growing up, if someone came by and told me there
was a hockey game forming, there was no need to specify where.
Everyone knew that the neighborhood kids used a certain stretch of side
road as their hockey field.

-- 
Mark