[Talk-ca] Proposed features/soccer field - OpenStreetMap

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Somebody is doing some nice mapping around Sherbrooke!
> :-)
>>
>> I like the current rendering of the multi-use fields.  I understood
>> the combinations immediately.
>>
>> The current fields are tagged as
>> leisure=playground
>> sport=soccer
>>
>> I've seen others use
>> leisure=pitch
>> sport=soccer   # or football / baseball / cricket / etc.
>>
>> "pitch" in this context is the British-English term for sport field.
>> I've used "playground" for swingset, climbing gym, slide, etc.
>>
>> None of this addresses your proposal.  The challenge of two uses in
>> one place, at different times, is interesting.
>
> Right on.  I need a compelling rendering.  If I could get that, I could
> use OSM as the official soccer club map because it would be both a nice
> map when zoomed out (hopefully one day we can get a "hybrid" with
> OpenAerialMap for a really kick ass map) and a detailed plan.  I was
> thinking yesterday of adding all sorts of other things like the location
> of seats if any with maybe an estimated seating capacity etc.  All of
> this information is absent in the "other" maps and could be rendered,
> maybe using specific themes to avoid clutter.

Good to speak with you, Yves.  (And the rest of talk-ca as well, of course.)

I think you have everything tagged properly.  A possible change would
be playground --> pitch, but the rendering challenge remains.  That
makes this a "rendering problem for a specific use case" I think.
Without broad support, whatever the rendering solution, it is less
likely to be adopted for the default map on osm.org.  So as alpine ski
pistes are not shown on osm.org, but are seen on openpistemap.org,
perhaps your rendering solution will be seen on openSoccerClubMap.org
?

Slovakia freemap shows different local rendering on a default basemap.
 openSoccerClubMap.org might be similar?
http://www.freemap.sk/

As James suggests, with a local "layer" of some sort over the base
map, you might add Web 2.0 whiz-bang stuff.