Hi Jean-Marc
Like others, I did map many of these. I can tell you that we often see a common
space in center of african villages, often near the school, and it is surely
not green and have no facilities like in the Nordic countries parks.
People have to understand that there are often no infrastructures in African
villages. But young people still gather and play.
I dont think that the OSM tagging schema should reflect the legal status in
specific countries like UK. Various tags can reflect various realities. And
leisure=common seems to be quite well adapted to Africa and dont exist to
stretch the legal defininition of UK.
When the tag is used in UK, I would understand that the UK contributors want to
follow a certain rule particular to their country.
But I dont agree to deprecate the the leisure=common tag for Africa.
Pierre
Le mercredi 29 avril 2020 15 h 34 min 57 s UTC−4, Jean-Marc Liotier
<j...@liotier.org> a écrit :
Here is a 360° picture of a square in Dakar:
https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA - larger than a
street (it occupies a whole city block), used as a multipurpose common
area (pickup soccer games are a staple but parking or lounging around
also occur, and the occasional popular event) and usually surfaced with
sand or whatever the ground is.
We have long tagged it leisure=common (389 ways in Senegal and 486 in
Mali according to http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TqN) - which is a bit of
stretch from the British legal definition, but worked well enough and
did not conflict with its British usage. But leisure=common is now
deprecated
So, what should we use instead ?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon suggests using
leisure=park - which isn't too much of a stretch functionally but evokes
greenery that does not occur here (though British commons are just as
green and we were happy with leisure=common)... Any other ideas ? Or I'm
going to use leisure=park+surface=sand !
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