On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected] > wrote:
> Once again I stumbled across a warning which discourages these > leisure=skate_park and skatepark on the sport skateboard page because of > low usage, but with the only alternative “pitch”. If you can speak about > pitches in this context, I would expect a skatepark to often consist of > more than one “pitch”. > I'd expect a pitch to be flat. I'd expect a skateboard park to not be flat. Cricket might turn into an interesting sport if played on a skateboard "pitch" but I doubt it will ever happen (cricket's function is an excuse for people drowse in the sunlight). My preference is for skatepark without the underscore, seems most used > although currently not in osm ;-) (look at tag history to see automatic > changes resetting it, numbers are very low, certainly discouraging the tag > doesn’t help) > It was probably done that way for consistency. Which is usually a good thing. OTOH, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Deprecating tags because of low usage tags isn't necessarily sensible. It discourages ever using a new tag (which, at its inception, will have low usage). It means that uncommon items, which occur in only a handful of locations in the world, would be discouraged. It leads to the conclusion that after we've eliminated the least-used tags there will be a new set of least-used tags which we should therefore eliminate, until there are no tags left. In short, it's bollocks. There may well be valid, sensible reasons for deprecating leisure=skate_park, (or any other tag) but low usage is not, in my opinion, one of them. -- Paul
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