I agree, the area in this spot ( https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/jYNQFMwHiNEZRCnpi71heA) is a moderly sized open area of bare earth, with buildings on 3 sides and a paved streets on a long side. It appears to be used for sports and recreation, and for walking. I suspect it might be a "de facto" leisure=pitch - in the USA it would be an "empty lot" used for soccer/baseball/etc. It could also be a highway=pedestrian + area=yes - an open pedestrian area or "town square" - those are usually paved in some way in developed countries, but that's not a requirement. It does not appear to be a park.
There was not any formal discussion to deprecate leisure=common, and mappers are certainly free to keep using that tag. It was marked as deprecated by one wiki user, about a year ago. But since the tag it is not well defined, it will be hard for database users to interpret what it means. -- Joseph Eisenberg On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:41 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Apr 29, 2020, 21:37 by skqu...@rushpost.com: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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