[OSM-talk] building=grandstand vs leisure=bleachers

[Stefano]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, 08:26 Tomasz Wójcik, <tomox3 at wp.pl> wrote:

> Currently, we (de facto) have 2 tags for the same feature, which is not a
> proper state.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building=grandstand
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=bleachers
>
> I think we should choose the correct one andadd warning moving mappers to
> the proper one on OSM Wiki.
>
> Building=grandstand is not perfect for me, beacuse building=* tag suggest
> that is some kind of typical building (with walls, roof, etc.) and most of
> the OSM styles render building=grandstand like every other buildings, where
> you can go inside, which may be confusing with grandstands areas. On the
> other hand we have leisure=bleachers , when the "bleachers" word is
> propably used only in USA.
>
> What do you think about it?
>

Well, also building=roof doesn't have walls :)
Bleachers as the wiki says is American English, while the tags usually are
British English. Taginfo shows bleachers used mainly in USA.

Ciao,
Stefano

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