On 30/4/20 6:40 am, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by [email protected]:
On 4/29/20 14:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
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 !
While leisure=park might work, there is also leisure=recreation_ground
to consider.
leisure=recreation_ground sounds fitting to me and is without baggage
of legal
status bundled into leisure=commons
It may look like sports are played there to you and me.
It may resemble a park to others.
However none of those may be the case!
Or it may not be the primary use. Simply viewing it without local
knowledge may well cause errors!
The local mapper should say what the area is primarily used for ..
It may be used for a weekly market (some 'weeks' are 6 days in Africa).
It may be used for social/political gatherings.
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The surface is not grass. I would hesitate to call it sand, could be
ground. In any case 'unpaved' could be used.
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