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

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Sun May 3 18:54:22 UTC 2020


On 5/3/20 7:36 PM, Marc M. wrote:
> Le 03.05.20 à 18:13, Joseph Eisenberg a écrit :
>> it is true that this tag (leisure=common)is ambiguous because it is 
>> being used for totally different purposes in different countries. 
> I think this argument is crucial. if more than one meaning exists for 
> a tag, having a precise meaning for a country is useless, osm is a 
> global base, it's a bad idea to hope a render style "tag A rendered as 
> meaning1 in Africa, as meaning2 in Europe, as meaning3 in Asia".

Then, isn't it nice that leisure=common has been abandoned in it's 
former British usage ? As far as I know, that was its only other usage - 
or is it also used in other parts of the world ?


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