Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2012-02-11 Thread John Sturdy
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Komяpa wrote: > I would recommend not to use the word 'gymnasium", because it is > easily confused (and even recognised by google translate) as "high > school" in russian language. Also in Swedish and German, I think. __John _

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2012-02-11 Thread Steve Doerr
On 11/02/2012 12:52, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: - I would tag a gymnasium(sports hall) in a school as leisure=gymnasium My school had a gym(nasium) and a sports hall. The latter was used for things like 5-a-side football, basketball, badminton (several courts side by side) and had virtually

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2012-02-11 Thread Komяpa
I would recommend not to use the word 'gymnasium", because it is easily confused (and even recognised by google translate) as "high school" in russian language. We already have a lot of pitches mapped as stadium because a pitch near the school is called "stadium" in ex-ussr :3 -- Darafei "Komяpa"

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2012-02-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/2/11 Zsolt Bertalan : > Namely: > - I wouldn't use leisure=gym as it is confusing. +1 > - I would tag a gymnasium(sports hall) in a school as leisure=gymnasium +1 > - Also, a separate, bigger sports hall gymnasium with spectator's stand as > leisure=gymnasium. Or leisure=arena? not s

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2012-02-11 Thread Zsolt Bertalan
Hi, I try to find a tag for a gymnasium (sports hall) in a school, for a fitness centre in a shopping centre and other sports facilities, but I realised there are no tags the community agreed on except for leisure=sports_centre. This is a complicated issue because of overlapping concepts, our mult

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/10/2011 1:09 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: PPS--In the US, "gymnasium" is definitely not limited to places where people do gymnastics, as mike said it's a large indoor room for a variety of sports--like basketball and volleyball--and also sometimes events like assemblies or dances. ... at a school

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-10 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-04-09 20:41, Brad Neuhauser wrote: PS--To me, fitness centre would eliminate any possible confusion with other usages of gym or gymnasium, but if gym has already been in wide usage, it'll do. +1 Not that I spend any time there myself :-|, but people that do almost universally call the

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-09 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Hi, just following up on the gym/fitness centre thread. I found the talk page [1] where this discussion has apparently been going on for a couple years (I know, shocking, isn't it?). I noticed a note on the bottom of the page that a bot changed ~1500 gyms to sport=gymnastics!? Anyone know if th

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 15:24 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: > Also locally, a "gymnasium" is a large indoor sport floor which can be > configured for multiple sports like gymnastics, basketball, > volleyball, murderball, etc. taginfo says only 16 instances of > leisure=gymnasium are in OSM at the mom

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread Stephen Hope
On 9 April 2011 06:27, Mike N wrote: >   I agree that a fitness club/center doesn't fit well as a sports centre - > which I would visualize as having multiple types of facilities for > competitive and/or community social purposes. A sports centre doesn't have to have mixed sports (though most do)

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread Stephen Hope
On 9 April 2011 05:24, Richard Weait wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=sports_centre > might include racquet sport courts, a gymnasium, exercise equipment, a > running track and an ice hockey rink. Around here, that might also include an "indoor sports centre" (indoor cricke

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread Mike N
On 4/8/2011 4:05 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: What you refer to as "gym" sounds like what I'd call a "health club" or "fitness club". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_club Is it supposed to be tagged as sports centre? The wiki description makes me think a sports centre is a pretty large structu

Re: [Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread Brad Neuhauser
What you refer to as "gym" sounds like what I'd call a "health club" or "fitness club". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_club Is it supposed to be tagged as sports centre? The wiki description makes me think a sports centre is a pretty large structure, whereas there are some pretty small heal

[Tagging] Sports_centre, gym, dojo

2011-04-08 Thread Richard Weait
May will be sport and activity month for Project of the Week / Project of the Month. Some aspects of tags in this space are well understood and widely used. Can we clear up a few more of them? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=sports_centre might include racquet sport courts, a gymn