On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Lorenzo Mastrogiacomi <[email protected] > wrote:
> > I have already RFC-ed this proposal in 2016 but it remained there. > I would like to go to the voting stage, please check it. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/leisure%3Dracetrack > > My vote is no. Because the proposal specifically excludes any other kind of racing than motor racing. Other kinds of racing (horse, dog, horse and trap, etc.) also refer to their facilities as a racetrack. I object to you pre-empting "racetrack" specifically for motor racing to the exclusion of any other kind of racing. This means that when somebody wants to tag a dog track they'd have to invent something like leisure=dogtrack. Or they'd just use whatever their favourite editor pops up as a preset in response to "race" without investigating if it is actually appropriate. So we'll end up with dog tracks mistagged as leisure=racetrack, or tagged as a mix of leisure=dogtrack, leisure=dog_racing, etc. I know you're interested only in car racing, but even that has pitfalls. What about F1 racing versus stock car racing? And are you also excluding motorbike racing? As it stands, your proposal is just going to end up with a mix of bad tagging. IMO: if your proposal says "this excludes XYZ" without it pointing to ways of tagging XYZ because there aren't any ways of tagging XYZ then it's a bad proposal. Because many people tagging using their favourite editor are unlikely to read that proposal (or the eventual wiki page) and won't get any alternative presets presented to them to tag XYZ. If you amend your proposal so that leisure=racetrack applies to any kind of racing and add a racetrack=* tag with a few possible values such as motor_car, dog, horse, horse_and_trap then it becomes more sensible. But still needs some thought with regard to F1, stock car, etc. And some thought as to multi-purpose tracks: do they get semicolon-separated values or the value "mixed"? All in my opinion, of course. -- Paul
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