Here is the location of the batting cage business I started mapping (they have 
a small cafe inside of the main building) 
Across the big street is a driving range.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.35556/139.04995

Baseball=? brought up the batting cages tag in iD, so I used that. But is that 
really a pitch? 

Javbw

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:12 PM, johnw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying to tag businesses in Japan, and 2 common sports businesses I have 
> seen are Golf Driving Ranges  - giant netted monstrosities that are 
> everywhere all over Japan. I mean everywhere - there are tons of them.  They 
> are not part of a golf course, just a stand-alone business on a hill, in a 
> field, or occasionally on top of buildings in big towns.  They are often the 
> tallest structure in a rural town. 
> 
> The next is batting cages - small areas with enclosed pitching machines, 
> arranged linearly like a driving range, but with pitching machines and a much 
> smaller enclosed area. there are several just in my little town. 
> 
> I saw there is a golf=driving_range - so I was tagging the driving range 
> itself as a pitch and then the (sometimes 2-3 story) building that you drive 
> from, and then finally on the commercial landuse sports=golf + 
> golf=driving_range. (this is where the fence=net came up).
> 
> There are also a lot of batting practice places - the national sport of Japan 
> is baseball, and a common High school sport, so there are a lot of commercial 
> (and occasionally some private) batting cages. 
> 
> They are not part of a greater sports complex, but a business you go just to 
> practice batting.  There are usually pitching practice cages at baseball 
> fields as well. 
> 
> I was trying to figure out how to tag a batting cage business today. 
> 
> I found an old proposal for “practice pitch” 
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practice_pitch
> 
> 
> which might be good to revisit and approve, as these facilities are clearly 
> not for the playing, but rather the practice of a specific aspect of the 
> sport.  I feel kinda guilty tagging a drivng range or a batting practice 
> netted area as a “pitch” because only the ball collection machines go there - 
> but it is also clearly where the practice is happening. 
> 
> 
> If this approach isn’t correct, please let me know how to tag a baseball 
> batting practice business. 
> 
> Otherwise I will try to clean up this proposal for RFC and voting.
> 
> 
> javbw. 
> 
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