[Talk-us] Dirt Bike Area

[James Umbanhowar]

On Sunday, April 03, 2011 08:53:50 am Richard Weait wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM, James U <jumbanho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 03, 2011 07:45:50 am Mike N wrote:
> >> On 4/2/2011 11:37 PM, Val Kartchner wrote:
> >> > Within the past few days I discovered an area built up for public use
> >> > of pedal dirt bikes.  I have searched but have not found a way to
> > 
> > designate
> > 
> >> > such an area.  Has something been created yet?
> >> 
> >>    I couldn't find anything like this.   For a standard dirt paths, it
> >> could almost be classified as a park.    But if it has sculpted dips,
> >> berms, and woop-dee-doos, it should be called a "pump track" --
> >> leisure=pump_track  or bmx_track?
> > 
> > In a similar category are skateboarding parks.  I have labelled them as
> > leisure=playground.  In addition to Mike's suggestions, they could also
> > probably fall under leisure=pitch, sport=bmx, surface=ground.
> 
> Why not highway=track, surface=dirt for the built-up track itself ?
> 

Some of these areas don't have have a fixed track and may be best viewed 
as a homogeneous area.