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

[Tony Shield]

I think all sports clubs should be tagged in their own right - a node in 
the pitch or close to a building outline looks good to me.  club=sport 
looks to be designed for such.

Amateur/Professional to me makes no difference - tag it. There maybe 
scope for am amateur/professional tag.

Stadiums often have their own name even though they are strongly 
associated with the club in people minds. Where clubs often play at 
rented grounds - e.g. council sports pitches - the club should not be 
placed on the rented pitch.


On 12/01/2022 09:33, Tom Crocker wrote:
> 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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