Proposal:Usability of sport pitches
| Usability of sport pitches | |
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| Proposal status: | Draft (under way) |
| Proposed by: | Martianfreeloader |
| Tagging: | pitch:usability=* |
| Applies to: |   
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| Definition: | Describes the quality of a sport pitch. |
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| Draft started: | 2022-09-20 |
Proposal
I propose to introduce the key pitch:usability=* for sport pitches (leisure=pitch) where usability and joy depend on objective properties of the pitch.
Rationale
There are sports for which the enjoyment and/or performance critically depend on objective properties of the pitch (e. g. table tennis or ice hockey). While there are other sports for which this is not (so much) the case (e. g. trail running), I propose to introduce a generic usability scale for those sports for which pitch quality matters.
This proposal introduces only a generic scale. For each sport for which a such scale makes sense, criteria need to be defined specifically.
For most sports, fully objective criteria will be hard to find. However, openstreetmap has a range of widely-accepted tags that are not fully objective but are considered of big enough usefulness to keep them. Examples are smoothness=*, trail_visibility=* or sac_scale=*.
A simple example for the usefulness of the tag: Many cities contain hundreds of outdoor table tennis pitches, but with very different quality. A pair of friend who want to meet up for a table tennis match in their neighbourhood may want to search online for the best pitch within a given radius instead of checking a dozen of pitches on site before deciding which one to use.
For many sports, playability would be a good description. However, since not all sports are "played", the term usability appears to be more generic and hopefully covers all (or most) sports.
Tagging & Examples
The examples are just for illustration purposes; exact criteria would have to be discussed in sport-specific follow-up proposals.
| Key | Value | Enjoyment | Condition | (Semi-)objective measure | Examples |
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| usability | excellent | Unimpaired enjoyment. | Competition-like. | Fully adheres to the strictest regulations of the highest-level governing body (if there is any). Examples: |
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| usability | good | Almost undisturbed enjoyment. | |||
| usability | intermediate | Enjoyment moderately disturbed. |
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| usability | bad | Enjoyment considerably curbed. | |||
| usability | horrible | Not enjoyable if your intention is to play anything similar to the dedicated sport. In some sports, this may imply also an elevated risk of injury or death. |
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| usability | unusable | The intended sport cannot be exercised here. | Pitch unsuited for the sport it is intended for. |
Deprecation of playability=*
Previously, the key playability=* has been informally introduced by the author of this proposal. Subsequently, it has been pointed out that playability may be confusing for sports that are not considered to be played. Hence, this proposal seeks to introduce the more generic key usability in lieu. Approval of this proposal would deprecate playability=*, which is fortunately not yet in widespread use.
Rendering
The most simple rendering would just ignore the tag. More sophisticated rendering could vary icon size and/or colour saturation depending on the tag value.
Features/Pages affected
playability=* would be superseded by usability=* in case the proposal will be approved. The wiki page sport=table_tennis currently makes use of this key. All occurrences of playability=* therein would need to be replaced by usability=*
External discussions
- Tagging mailing list, 29-30 May 2022
Comments
Please comment on the discussion page.
Call for support
This is my (the author's) very first proposal. I don't expect to be able to make it a good proposal right from scratch without the help from others. If you generally think the proposal is a good idea, I'd very much appreciate your help beyond comments.
History
Notable changes:
- 2022-09-20: Values very_bad and very_horrible removed in order to reduce number of possible values.