On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 20:41 +0000, Dan S wrote: > leisure=stadium is appropriate for these? > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dstadium
Stadium is not really appropriate for racing circuits like Silverstone. A stadium implies an area surrounded by grandstands, which may be appropriate in the US for NASCAR circuits, but not really for the open circuits we have in the UK. I believe that Silverstone is also an active airfield. Phil (trigpoint) > > 2014-02-01 SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com>: > > Today whilst moving bugs over from OpenStreetBugs I noticed that the > > Silverstone GP circuit is tagged leisure=sports_centre and Huntingdon > > Racecourse is tagged with leisure=track. > > > > Whereas it is true that Silverstone is a centre for a sport, my > > understanding is that leisure=sports_centre is usually used to map > > buildings, usually run by councils, which offer a range of facilities for > > different sports. Associated playing fields are usually mapped as > > leisure=recreation_ground. > > > > Similarly leisure=track is comprehensible to me, but would not make sense to > > any automated processing of tag values. > > > > I've muttered before about how extending the meaning of a tag usually > > degrades the tags value. In this case indiscriminate use of sports_centre > > means that OSM no longer becomes suitable for examining things like access > > to sports facilites by the general public. > > > > The other thing that this highlights is the potential need for a generic > > landuse type tag for areas devoted to some sporting purpose. I've noted this > > before in the US where people have taken to marking the in-bound areas of a > > ski resort with leisure=recreation_ground. > > > > Any thoughts, > > > > Jerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
