What is a sports hall? Is it what we call a "gym" in America?
The dictionary definition I found just said it was "a building used for sports", and the wiki page only says it's a building or part of a building "used as a sports hall", which doesn't do anything to clarify the situation. I don't see how that is different than the definition of sports_centre: "a distinct facility where sports take place within an enclosed area" - which then specifically mentions "it can be a building". I'll admit that we don't use the term "sports centre" in the USA either, but at least the wiki definition is clearly vague: it's any enclosed area (including buildings) where sports take place. On 9/5/19, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org> wrote: > On 05.09.2019 15:48, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> Another user would like the proposed tag (used 329 times) > > 346 if you count all tags. Look at taghistory and see it has grown from 22 > in early 2018, thus about > 15 times. > > It was a result of discussion in some communities that time. > >> leisure=sports_hall to be added to leisure=sports_centre. > > No. You cannot add the value to the same key. > > The intention of leisure=sports_hall is to describe facilities better that > were incorrectly tagged > leisure=sports_centre, an example are simple school sport halls, which > certainly are not 'centres'. > > >> However, I believe that rarely used, proposed tags should be approved >> through the proposal process or should become commonly used >> organically, before being added to the pages of common tags and keys. > > If you look at the history, it is being growing organically. > A hint to consider a more suitable tag on the centre page tagging cannot > hurt. > >> So, this can be a synonym for a sports_centre, or a tag for a building >> found in a sports_centre? > > More precisely, leisure=sports_hall is for facilities that are not centres. > Surely a centre can hold, among other facilities to form a centre, one or > more halls. > >> Why not just use building=sports_hall and sports_centre for the whole >> area? > > Because building=* describes the building typology, not the usage. leisure=* > describes the usage. > Thus, a purpose-built sports hall is > leisure=sports_hall+building=sports_hall, while a converted > church that is now used for sports is leisure=sports_hall+building=church. > > tom > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
