Airsoft is also included on the "all sports" proposal (along with paintball and laser tag)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports#Skirmish http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/all_sports On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Mauer wrote: > > Voting is now open on tagging for the sport of shooting. > > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Shooting > > > > Please record your vote. > > > > -Alex Mauer "hawke" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > Sorry to reply to this here, I'm still trying to remember my wiki > password (been away for a while, only just getting back into it) > > You (the royal 'you', not you alex) have listed the possible values as > clay, range and paintball. What about airsoft? > (think paintball with bb guns, more realistic weapons, without the messy > paint, it's more of a military simulation then all out killing) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft > > There's tons of sites *dedicated* to airsofting around the county, > there's three in my local area (Wigan) which I frequent and I've been > looking for a way to tag them. Trust me airsofters are going to be > annoyed if their shooting sites get listed as 'paintballing' sites, and > visa versa. > > The reason they need to be listed separately is that paint balling sites > are not nessarily airsofting sites, and airsofting sites are not > necessarily paint balling sites. Non of the three in my area are > paintballing sites, though there is one paintballing site in my area > that doesn't allow airsofting. > > I think with this proposal OSM could become *the* source of > paintballing/airsofting sites, I don't think there are many complete > maps of these sites currently around. > > Bonus about airsofting? recently the UK government said that all sites > needed to register and all players needed to register to legally own the > replica weapons, what does this mean for OSM? Potentially a nice list of > sites straight from the governing body (UKARA): > > http://www.ukara.org.uk/node/24 > > Someone from legal just needs to drop them an email and see if they will > share the data, I reckon they would love a OSM map on their site with > all the sites listed in return! Worth a try. > > If I remember my password i'll post this on the wiki too. > > - Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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