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

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 5/25/20 3:42 AM, Warin wrote:
>
> You will need to be very clear what a 'common' is and how it is 
> different from other tags such as amenity=marketplace, leisure=park
>
The defining characteristics are: being open to public, not designated 
for a specific purpose, not landscaped (or that would be a park), not a 
marketplace (in West Africa, marketplaces are regulated and occur almost 
only at designated locations), not a pitch (when a couple pairs of 
goalposts are planted at extremities, the pitchness sometimes takes 
precedence and a few such locations are rightfully mapped as soccer 
pitches - but usually playing ball is just one of the uses of such places)

A possible alternative, not yet mentioned here, is place=square (which 
by the way is the English for the concept of piazza/plaza) "A town or 
village square: a paved open public space, generally of architectural 
significance, which is surrounded by buildings in a built-up area such 
as a city, town or village" - 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/place=square 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_square - but it is part of the 
place=* hierarchy, which is not fit for our purpose: place=* requires a 
name=* and this places are rarely named.