Matthijs Melissen wrote on 2016/01/01 22:47:
Hi all,
Voting on the proposal for the tag leisure=aquatics_centre is now
open. You can vote here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Aquatics_centre
I think the proposal has been rushed into voting prematurely, with just 5 days
John, I think you will find that many water/ice sports including the
ones you mention have specific requirements regarding the pools/rinks. A
pool for water polo/swimming/diving/ice hockey as a proper sport
requires that a pool/rink be of a certain shape, size and depth and with
certain markings,
Martin, the purpose of my discussion is not to nit-pick on the illustrative
extra tags,
but to discuss
leisure=ducking
vs.
leisure=sports_centre
sports_centre=ducking
Anything else was just
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on 2016/01/05 12:02:
> I think that this approach is not working
2016-01-05 11:25 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer :
> area outline:
> * leisure=sports_centre
> * sports_centre=aquatics
>
I think that this approach is not working well, as there is no "natural"
logic for subtags like "sports_centre". Have a look in taginfo and
discover, that
Triggered by the discussion about leisure=aquatics vs
leisure=sports_centre+subtag,
I would like to discuss the tendency of structured vs. duck tagging.
Thanks to Martin who pointed me to Richard's coining of the latter term:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging, and I know there is
2016-01-05 12:32 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer :
> My conclusion is that a majority of mappers prefers a better structure and
> move
> away from tag fragmentation when they have a chance. This then helps the
> data
> consumers which do not need to run after each new duck tag to be
> On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> wrote:
>
> my opinion on this is that swimming is so different from other sports that
> I'd use a different main tag for the structure.
+1
Most "sports centres" are built around the idea of pitches/fields/courts
2016-01-05 12:44 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer :
> Martin, the purpose of my discussion is not to nit-pick on the
> illustrative extra tags,
> but to discuss
>
>leisure=ducking
>
> vs.
>
>leisure=sports_centre
>sports_centre=ducking
>
my opinion on this is that