[Tagging] leisure=practice_pitch a bad idea because too overspecific for a main tag ?

Timeo Gut timeo.gut at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 1 04:17:51 UTC 2023


There is already very well established tagging for basketball pitches 
with one basket.

Current usage:
8273 sport=basketball + hoops=1
vs.
6 sport=basketball + leisure=practice_pitch


On 2023-01-31 01:34, Illia Marchenko wrote:
> Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com>:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Le 30.01.23 à 16:24, Illia Marchenko a écrit :
>     > leisure=practice_pitch is not suitable for full game.
>
>     I had not seen that this tag was documented and in the history
>     we already see the 2 opinions:
>     when you see an XYZ sports field, do you have to be an expert
>     in that sport with a measuring device in your pocket to know
>     if the field is suitable for a match or only for training ?
>     the news shows from time to time a sports field suddenly becoming
>     a "training pitch" because the legislation has changed. but if
>     you ask 1000 contributors who haven't heard the news, i doubt that
>     any contributor would choose another secondary tag than leisure=pitch
>     the dimension aspect should be given either by its dimennsions in
>     osm,
>     or in a secondary tag and not carried by the main tag.
>     the documentation of the tag before the last modification on the
>     subject
>     showed well that the current situation is to use leisure=pitch
>     also for
>     the training grounds
>
>
> See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practice_pitch
>
> leisure=practice_pitch is intended for pitches that are physically 
> unsuitable for normal game - for example, small basketball pitch with 
> one basket.
>
> Regards,
> Illia.
>
>
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