Not much interest from [email protected] - maybe [email protected]'s larger audience will weight in ?
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Talk-africa] leisure=common replacement for urban public areas in Africa Date: Tue, March 5, 2019 10:40 am To: [email protected] [email protected] The openstreetmap-carto rendering of leisure=common was recently dropped (https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/commit/4df96c4e4927c3e029b31e34c0cf1be2dda6f637). In Mali and Senegal, I had found leisure=common to be an expedient way to describe explicitly designed publicly accessible undeveloped municipality-owned open dirt areas in cities, public squares in the barest sense, used for gatherings, impromptu soccer games and more generally as breathing space in a dense urban fabric: it is dedicated to leisure and it is a common area... But it did stray a bit from the original British vernacular meaning, which was akin to landuse=village_green in that the commons are normally grass covered. So I usually combined leisure=common with surface=ground or surface=sand to express the African reality... But still - this bends the concept quite far out of its original shape. So, though we do not map for the renderer, maybe this is a good time to find a better tag to map that feature. My candidate is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Drecreation_ground - and now that I think about it, I wonder why I didn't use it to begin with. As I'm the author of a good many leisure=common in Mali and Senegal, my near-term goal about them is to replace occurrences of leisure=common with the better term but only in Mali and Senegal. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
