> On May 11, 2015, at 6:02 PM, althio <althio.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > johnw <jo...@mac.com <mailto:jo...@mac.com>> wrote: >> The sports pitch in the middle of our local school sports stadium is also >> the staging grounds for wildfire fighting helicopters. >> >> I’m not about to add a aeroway=helipad to the field because it could be used >> for emergency evacuations. > > I would say that is precisely what happened for using leisure=common > and not adding aeroway=helipad.
i think what we’re trying to say is that (me being a bit of a noob) addeding leisure=common to places then searching for leisure=common to find landing sites is not good. tag the area as what it is (a meadow, a farm filed, a soccer pitch, etc) and then put a special tag you make up on it: emergency=landing_site is interesting, but make up what description meets your needs (areoway=improvised_landing_site, etc) to find spots, search for the tag you made up rather than searching for leisure=common if you are just tagging leisure=common to get a rendering in OSM carto that shows up on whatever map system you’re using (printed, onscreen, etc), then that isn’t good either, because a sports pitch or a meadow isn’t really a common, and tagging them as grass or a soccer pitch doesn’t have the same access privileges implied that leisure=common gives them. your choice of landing site tags should be tagged uniquely with your tags, not by tagging everything as leisure=common. I think that is what we’re trying to say, I think. Javbw
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