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

[Jez Nicholson]

Could the football club be seen as the 'operator' of the stadium? My local
football club operate the whole stadium: playing football on the pitch;
selling shirts in the club shop; selling tickets to enter the stands; etc.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:34 PM Tony Shield <tonyosm9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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