"gym" is a bit colloquial, but if it's already in use then go for it
(potential confusion for German speakers, I guess, but probably tolerable) Richard On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/16/12 10:24, Philip Barnes wrote: > >> Sports centres are usually big, often municipal with a swimming pool and >> the like. >> >> In the UK the smaller places you are describing would be called gyms. >> > > amenity=gym is rarely used and the wiki page advises against using it > because it is "ambiguous": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/** > wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dgym<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dgym> > > I find that surprising because it seems that sports_centre is even more > ambiguous or misunderstood - at least if someone tells me he's going to the > gym I know what they mean. > > Maybe we should simply define that amenity=gym means exactly these > "smaller places that I am describing" and change the wiki accordingly? I > have had a quick glance at the ~500 existing amenity=gym objects and I > think the tag is used exactly for this purpose already, so we'd only be > documenting an existing practice. > > It seems that there once was a Proposed_features/Gym page which has been > removed by Harry Wood (explicit Cc as I don't know if he reads this) - > unsure if he did so because he was convinced that there is too much > ambiguity or just for procedural reasons. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/tagging<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> >
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