[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - net for sports pitches

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Sun May 29 22:02:42 UTC 2022


On 29/05/2022 22:50, Hufkratzer wrote:
> On 28.05.2022 20:38, Martin Fischer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am proposing that we encourage sports pitches, where the sport 
>> requires a net,
>> to be tagged with net=yes or net=no to denote the presence or absence 
>> of a net
>> (opposed to mapping the net as a separate way with barrier=net).
>>
>> Link to proposal:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/net
>> [...]
>
> What about fenced=yes then? It is currently deprecated [1]. Why? 
> Shouldn't it then also be de-deprecated, so that it can be used if a 
> pitch is surrounded by a fence? Note that barrier=fence as a linear 
> feature should not be used together with leisure=pitch (or any other 
> area feature) according to the One feature, one OSM element rule [2].
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:fenced
> [2] 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element#Examples_of_bad_situations
>

I think that that's misunderstanding both the wiki and what is normal 
practice.

If somthing has a fence along the side, map the thing, and map the 
fence, as separate objects.  If they share nodes in reality it makes 
perfect sense for them to share nodes in OSM.

Best Regards,

Andy





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