[talk-au] Sports Clubs

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 09:19:42 GMT 2009


2009/12/14 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> It would also be nice to have club= for the whole ground including any
> pitches. So a bowling club might have club=yes, sport=bowls,
> name=Fobar Bowls club, on the whole area. Then, leisure=pitch,
> sport=bowls on the bowling green. Then amenity=club_rooms for the
> building with restaurants etc inside.

Where possible it's better to not invent new tags just because
variations in language usage. I'd lean towards the following:

leisure=sports_centre
sport=*

> But really, there ought to be support for multiple amenities on one
> tag (amenity=restaurant,pub,pokies). Anyone want to agitate for
> support?

It becomes messy to deal with multiple values for the same tag, the
SQL lookups become unreasonably slow.

> Oh, interesting. I had thought the pub/bar distinction was just the
> usual fuzzy one: bars are more upmarket.

There is already a amenity=nightclub and amenity=stripclub tag on the
map features wiki page.




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