place=square seems to fit the bill On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 23:18, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, the area in this spot ( > https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA) is a moderly > sized open area of bare earth, with buildings on 3 sides and a paved > streets on a long side. It appears to be used for sports and recreation, > and for walking. I suspect it might be a "de facto" leisure=pitch - in the > USA it would be an "empty lot" used for soccer/baseball/etc. It could also > be a highway=pedestrian + area=yes - an open pedestrian area or "town > square" - those are usually paved in some way in developed countries, but > that's not a requirement. It does not appear to be a park. > > There was not any formal discussion to deprecate leisure=common, and > mappers are certainly free to keep using that tag. It was marked as > deprecated by one wiki user, about a year ago. > > But since the tag it is not well defined, it will be hard for database > users to interpret what it means. > > -- Joseph Eisenberg > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < > tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >> >> >> >> Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by skqu...@rushpost.com: >> >> On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: >> >> Here is a 360° picture of a square in Dakar: >> https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA - larger than a >> street (it occupies a whole city block), used as a multipurpose common >> area (pickup soccer games are a staple but parking or lounging around >> also occur, and the occasional popular event) and usually surfaced with >> sand or whatever the ground is. >> >> We have long tagged it leisure=common (389 ways in Senegal and 486 in >> Mali according to http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN) - which is a bit of >> stretch from the British legal definition, but worked well enough and >> did not conflict with its British usage. But leisure=common is now >> deprecated >> >> So, what should we use instead ? >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon suggests using >> leisure=park - which isn't too much of a stretch functionally but evokes >> greenery that does not occur here (though British commons are just as >> green and we were happy with leisure=common)... Any other ideas ? Or I'm >> going to use leisure=park+surface=sand ! >> >> >> While leisure=park might work, there is also leisure=recreation_ground >> to consider. >> >> >> leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without baggage of >> legal >> status bundled into leisure=commons >> >> This specific place looks like leisure=pitch. And for example in Poland >> some >> sport pitch may be used for an occasional event, festival of various >> types. >> >> Note: I am unfamiliar with on-the-ground situation in Africa >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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