[Talk-GB] Should football clubs be tagged in their own right?

[Tom Crocker]

Hi, sorry, to complete the half-baked email hijacking a different thread...

I've noticed that many but not all league and conference teams have their
name tagged on the pitch inside their stadium. Although club=sport [1]
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:club%3Dsport>, sport=soccer,
name=* is tagged for a number of fairly minor teams (just over 100 [2]) I
haven't spotted this being used for any of the upper tiers of the football
league. I wondered if this was some professional/amateur distinction (I
can't turn up and ask for a game!) but the wiki page says this distinction
should not be made [1]. Is there a good reason to not remove the names from
the pitches and add them to nodes with club=sport, etc. I'm guessing a node
would generally be preferred to a way that duplicated the stadium for
example, or dual tagging on the pitch, given that is not its name?

Thanks

Tom

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:club%3Dsport
[2] https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1f04
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