[Tagging] Swimming pool lanes

[Robert Skedgell]

Strangely, you forgot to mention that lanes=* was added to the wiki page
for the leisure=track tag on 10 May 2017. This change went unremarked on
the discussion page, probably because it was useful and uncontroversial
for mappers who actually use athletics tracks.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Aleisure%3Dtrack&type=revision&diff=1473289&oldid=1467942

Whoever added it to lanes=* in January 2021 was simply describing
existing tagging practice for a combination which is in use on 4502 objects.

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/leisure=track#combinations

Apart from hypothetical vertically stacked running tracks and circular
swimming pools, I am struggling to find any coherent objection from you.

On 22/05/2021 01:32, bkil wrote:
> Be advised that somebody just added piste in January and running track
> in February without consulting with others.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:lanes&diff=2109459&oldid=2101341
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:lanes&diff=2101341&oldid=2063596
> 
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 2:02 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 20:21, Sebastian Martin Dicke <Sebastianmartindicke at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> To use lanes as only prefix could be emerge confusion
>>> with another usages of the lanes prefix, for example lanes:bus or
>>> lanes:taxi.
>>
>>
>> But is that really likely?
>>
>> I notice that the actual lanes page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes includes:
>>
>> " Use the lanes=* key to tag how many traffic lanes there are on a highway (described on this page) or other features like a piste or running track (described on the respective pages)"
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:route%3Dpiste
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>> leisure=track includes " lanes=*, when lanes are painted on the track." as Useful Combination
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>> I think that just lanes=* by itself would be sufficient for most (all?) sporting facilities eg swimming, running, shooting, 10 pin bowling etc
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Graeme