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

[Warin]

On 31/1/23 04:34, 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.
>

Soccer pitches have defined dimensions.. but there are smaller soccer 
pitches for children to play soccer on, I'd not call those practice 
pitches. So just by looking at the vacant pitch I'd not be able to tell 
if some sport pitches are 'practice' or not.
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