[OSM-talk] golf courses?

[Michael Collinson]

At 01:16 AM 1/25/2008, Alex Mauer wrote:
>The map features page lists both leisure=golf_course and sport=golf.
>Can we please pick one of these and remove the other?

Often synonymous yes; always synonymous  no.

I find it useful to separately tag the place and use sport=xxx to 
mean "pertaining to the sport of xxx" with an eye to search engines. 
So with golf, a search engine can distinguish between golf courses, 
driving ranges and club houses and possibly speciality golf shops yet 
still easily bring up everything pertaining to golf within a given area.

With the sport of recreational diving, it is useful to know both the 
local dive spots and dive shops where you can get air tanks, hire 
boats etc.  The two things are very different and cannot be 
distinguished by sport=scuba_diving alone.

Other examples:

leisure=pitch
sport=soccer

versus

leisure=stadium
sport=soccer

amenity=swimming_pool
sport=swimming;water_polo

versus

natural=beach
sport=swimming

Mike
Stockholm