As a mapper I try to map the 'marked area', the marked lines used to
create the court/pitch. This makes somewhat easier work for me and very
objective.
It also make it easy to map an area that has a tennis court, a
basketball court and a netball court all co-located.
The rendering of 3 rectangles can be had once zoomed in. Sometimes the
courts are all in the same direction, sometimes a court can be at 90
degrees to the others.
I would not attempt to map that as 'the playing area'. Some of them have
a common fence as a barrier to balls going 'out of bounds' into traffic
or getting lost in the bush.
If you map "the playing area' .. how far do you go?
A cricket ball, golf ball or a football can travel a long way outside
the marked area..
I'd think that 'the playing area' could be very subjective.
On 22/5/23 06:08, Raphael wrote:
Hello everyone
Does the area outside the sidelines of a pitch up a board, a fence, a
change in surface or similar belong to a pitch (sports field) or not?
I'm asking because there's [some disagreement][^1] about how to map
`leisure=pitch`: [like this][^2] or [like this][^3]?
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is unclear: in the article on [out of
bounds][^4] it says that 'the sidelines are the white or colored lines
which mark the outer boundaries of a sports field'. However, the
article on [pitch][^5] states that 'the field of play generally
includes out-of-bounds areas that a player is likely to enter while
playing a match'.
Best regards
Raphael
[^1]: https://lists.openstreetmap.ch/pipermail/talk-ch/2023-May/011920.html
[^2]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/46.00564/8.96361
[^3]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/46.93564/7.42376
[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_bounds
[^5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(sports_field)
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