Re: "A sports hall, to me, is a building in an environment that is not wholly about sports,so a building in school grounds or in a business complex."
That's a useful definition. Can anyone confirm if this is how it's being used? I believe most of the original discussion was about features in Germany (Sporthallen?) - I think these are the same as a school Gymnasium in the USA, but I'm not sure. I'm just concerned that with the current lack of definition on the wiki page, people will start using it for features that are normally tagged as sports centres in a single building, like a dedicated futsal centre in Brazil or an indoor tennis centre in Indonesia, where words like "sports hall" and "sports centre" may have no clear translation into the local language. - Joseph Eisenberg On 9/6/19, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > On 05/09/2019 23:29, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 03:08, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net >> <mailto:o...@raggedred.net>> wrote: >> >> It's a sports hall I think because it is marked out for various >> indoor sports,e.g. badminton, volley ball, >> 5-a-side football etc, with curtains or nets to separate courts when >> needed. >> >> >> Thanks, Chris, that's what I was remembering from schools in >> Australia, but they weren't called a sports hall - usually Assembly >> Hall, as that's where the School assembles to be addressed by the >> principal. >> >> Wouldn't that description still match the definition that Joseph >> quoted above though - "sports_centre: "a distinct facility where >> sports take place within an enclosed area" - which then specifically >> mentions "it can be a building"."? >> >> > To me a sports centre is a place that's dedicated to sport in its own > space or grounds. It may have outdoor pitches,courts etc as well as > indoor provisions. I think it could have a gym, i.e. a space with gym > equipment too. > > A sports hall, to me, is a building in an environment that is not wholly > about sports,so a building in school grounds or in a business complex. > It has more than just a gym room. > > This is just my interpretation and I don't think agonising over precise > meanings is that useful. I am, however strongly against homogenising the > database. If someone describes a place as a sports hall I am strongly > against someone overwriting that as a sports centre when they have no > local knowledge, but just want to impose a structure to the data that > doesn't actually exist. We are describing the real world which is messy, > has contradictions and inconsistencies and which we will never ever get > right with homogenous lists and restrictions. I say there as sports > halls and sports centres and there is easily room for both. > > -- > cheers > Chris Hill (chillly) > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
