On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Lorenzo Mastrogiacomi <[email protected] > wrote:
> > The main reason because I excluded non-motorised sports is because many of > them seem to have an already established way of mapping. > All this pages mention sports_centre and stadium as physical tag > combination for related facilities: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Asport%3Ddog_racing > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Asport%3Dhorse_racing > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport%3Dequestrian > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Asport%3Dbobsleigh > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Asport%3Dcycling > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Asport%3Dbmx > I've looked at those and most of them seem, to me, documenting what people have used because they couldn't find anything better. I think leisure_centre is a bad fit, because I'd see a leisure centre as somewhere you go to do something rather than to watch something. Yes, it's borderline because some leisure centres incorporate spectator facilities, but when I think of a dog track "leisure centre" doesn't come to mind. > As for the term "racetrack", I agree it's ambiguous and I accept > suggestions. Maybe a more descriptive tag is needed (motor_something). > It's not so much the ambiguity, but why should motor racing have first claim on it? What it boils down to is do we clarify by leisure=motor_race_track, leisure=dog_race_track, etc., or have leisure=racetrack+racetrack=dog? Each method has its proponents. About motor racing specialities, I think it's argument for the sport=* tag > or another subtag someone may want to propose. This is not covered by the > proposal. > Is it a sport? I'd say it's a spectator sport. There's a difference. A sport is something I can take part in, a spectator sport is something I go to watch. Actually, I do neither, and would rather spend my time watching slow-motion replays of paint drying, but that's beside the point. -- Paul
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