[OSM-talk] Beach volleyball

Arlindo Pereira nighto at nighto.net
Sat Aug 29 18:14:17 BST 2009


Of course. I was just kidding, hence the ":)" emoticon.

I think that the tag

leisure = pitch
sport = volleyball
surface = sand

is enough to tag them.

Cheers,

2009/8/28 Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com>

> 2009/8/28 Arlindo Pereira <nighto at nighto.net>:
> > Or not even limited to volleyball at all. Here in Rio de Janeiro it is
> very
> > common to play futevôlei ("footvolley", volley played with the foot, not
> > with the hand) in the volleyball pitches.
>
> Indeed. However, in most cases they *are* (beach) volleyball courts.
> That is that when a person looks at one, they think "that's a
> volleyball court" and not "that's some sand that I could play
> volleyball on but I could also play chess". Any local person could
> think, upon seeing a "beach volleyball court" on the map, "I could
> play futevôlei on that".
>
> I think this comes down to 'mapping what is on the ground', i.e. a
> volleyball court. That's not to say, however,  that if the court
> really is appropriate for futevôlei then it shouldn't have some sort
> of extra tag to denote that.
>
> --
> Matt Williams
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