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 This specific place looks like leisure=pitch. And for example in Poland some sport pitch may be used for an occasional event, festival of various types. Note: I am unfamiliar with on-the-ground situation in Africa
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