I don't think arguments as "is the more generic term" are all that
convincing in the context of OSM. There are quite a number of cases in
OSM where a well established tag with proper documentation may not
always have the most "appropriate" name for its key or value. I think
the current changes by Tom are OK, based on the general knowledge of
seeing the type of structures edited with "building=grandstand", and
based on the original new description of the "building=stands" tag,
including stadium photo and referring to "big tribunes". So I don't
think these features, if tagged with "building=stands", were supposed to
signify something entirely different from the now documented
"building=grandstand".
And although I referred to building=stadium and building=grandstand used
somewhat interchangeably, building=stadium is generally more used for
entire concentric or enclosed structures including all additional
facilities of a true sports stadium, while the building=grandstand is
more for individual and somewhat smaller grandstand structures not
surrounding an entire playing field.
To be honest, I would leave it for now, I think they are distinct enough
to maintain as separate tags. As stated above, I think the current edit
is OK in the context of what I've seen.
Marco
Op 28-10-2017 om 09:57 schreef Volker Schmidt:
I fear we have been a bit too quick.
It looks as if stands and grandstand are different terms for seating
around a sports pitch.
The Wikipedia page "Stadium" refers several times to "stands" when it
talks about seating in a stadium. And the Wikpedia page "Bleacher" is
about "bleachers or stands", stating that these are US-English terms
for basic seating facilities around sports pitches
A "grandstand" is a grand stand according to Wikipedia.
Also an indication: a Google image search for "cricket, stands" shows
a number photos that I would have tagged as grandstands in OSM.
In essence, it looks as if "stands" is the more generic term and hence
should not be discouraged.
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