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. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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