[Tagging] Is landuse=winter_sports a ‘de facto’ tag for ski areas?

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 08:56:18 +0100
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at gmx.at> wrote:

> There is an alternative in form of a site relation subtype:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:site%3Dpiste
> It was rejected because "Relations are difficult to maintain" and
> similar "insightful" arguments. It still is tagged on almost 1k
> relations. IMHO the proposal should be revived and landuse=winter_sports
> deprecated. In its current form it violates the "no overlaps" rule
> (apart from other problems).

What's particularly tragic is that there exist collaborations of ski
resorts in Austria with their own cooperation, advertisements,
headquarter etc. Naturally, they get organized as... relations!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8896547
*sigh*
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner