I like both of these: landuse=events
landuse=civic Regards, Dave On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:41 AM, jonathan <jonat...@bigfatfrog67.me> wrote: > I definitely think there is a need for this, I can think of many places > around the UK this could apply to. > > landuse=events is better than leisure=* > > Jonathan > > http://bigfatfrog67.me > > On 09/03/2014 21:31, Tod Fitch wrote: > > It seems to me that landuse=events is reasonable. Most of the places > called fairgrounds where I am are used for other events other than the > traditional once a year fair. There are often swap meets, animal shows, > concerts, and other events held during the year. And the area often (always > in my experience but I've not seen many) have amenities on the grounds like > toilets, food concessions, etc. > > Using event_space or event_place seems odd to me: And area already > denotes a space or place. We don't say residential_place or > industrial_place in our tags, so my preference would be for landuse=events. > > -Tod > > > > On Mar 9, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Antônio Marcos wrote: > > I've never heard of "fairground", but it seems to be a quite specific > tag that could be substituted by or even inside the events area. The events > tag is indeed supposed to be generic, just like landuse=retail, which > demarks areas used by shops, and the leisure or landuse key before the > "events" value should denote that it is an area where events are carried on > (like the ones you cited, circus, shows etc.). Maybe, if the area hosts a > single type of event, it is considerable to create too an event_type= key > that describes the type of event. I am considering changing back the key > leisure to landuse, as it originally was supposed to be, because it is a > land used for this purpose and may contain facilities (amenities and > leisures) used during the events, such as pitches, toilets, bars and so on. > An example of an area like this is a very famous rodeo place here in Brazil > called Parque do Peão: http://binged.it/1h4EgcT. As you can see, there is > an entire area used for it, where fairs are made and several amenities for > the public are found: the rodeo event is not comprised only of the rodeo > show made in the arena. And there are many other event-designated places in > the world, I believe, thus I think OpenStreetMap is really lacking this > kind of tagging. Back to the leisure/landuse discussion, stated some points > above I think landuse fits better than leisure and I'd like some more > opinions on this matter, please, before changing it back to landuse=events. > If there needs any other improvement on this tag, please comment. Thanks. > > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2014-03-09 17:18 GMT+01:00 Antônio Marcos <toni.o...@gmail.com>: >> >> I have created this proposal some time ago for a new tag called >>> leisure=events (originally landuse=events), which should describe areas >>> reserved for events in a city or in a place (more info at the proposal page >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/leisure%3Devents). Does >>> anybody have more opinions and suggestions on this, please? >>> >> >> >> I think "event" is not a good description for a place where events take >> place, something like event_space / event_place would already be better, >> but still seems very generic. What kind of events do you have in mind, folk >> festivals? parish fairs? trade fairs? concerts? beer festivals? just to >> name a few. >> >> For these maybe "fairground" would be a good tag (not sure for leisure >> as a key, maybe use a neutral "amenity"?) >> >> cheers, >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > listTagging@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
_______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
