[OSM-talk] [Tagging] Vote: Shooting

[Daniel Taylor]

Alex Mauer wrote:
> Voting is now open on tagging for the sport of shooting.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Shooting
> 
> Please record your vote.
> 
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
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Sorry to reply to this here, I'm still trying to remember my wiki 
password (been away for a while, only just getting back into it)

You (the royal 'you', not you alex) have listed the possible values as 
clay, range and paintball. What about airsoft?
(think paintball with bb guns, more realistic weapons, without the messy 
paint, it's more of a military simulation then all out killing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft

There's tons of sites *dedicated* to airsofting around the county, 
there's three in my local area (Wigan) which I frequent and I've been 
looking for a way to tag them. Trust me airsofters are going to be 
annoyed if their shooting sites get listed as 'paintballing' sites, and 
visa versa.

The reason they need to be listed separately is that paint balling sites 
are not nessarily airsofting sites, and airsofting sites are not 
necessarily paint balling sites. Non of the three in my area are 
paintballing sites, though there is one paintballing site in my area 
that doesn't allow airsofting.

I think with this proposal OSM could become *the* source of 
paintballing/airsofting sites, I don't think there are many complete 
maps of these sites currently around.

Bonus about airsofting? recently the UK government said that all sites 
needed to register and all players needed to register to legally own the 
replica weapons, what does this mean for OSM? Potentially a nice list of 
sites straight from the governing body (UKARA):

http://www.ukara.org.uk/node/24

Someone from legal just needs to drop them an email and see if they will 
share the data, I reckon they would love a OSM map on their site with 
all the sites listed in return! Worth a try.

If I remember my password i'll post this on the wiki too.

- Daniel