Proposal:Dog off-leash area

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Dog off-leash area
Proposal status: Approved (active)
Proposed by: Pjwebster
Tagging: leisure=dog_park
Applies to: node node area area
Definition: Designated area, with or without a fenced boundary, where dog-owners are permitted to exercise their pets unrestrained. See also Wikipedia:Dog park.
Statistics:

Rendered as: dog icon
Draft started:
Proposed on: 2007-12-12
RFC start: 2009-11-30
Vote start: 2009-12-14
Vote end: 2009-12-28
The Feature Page for the approved proposal leisure=dog_park is located at [[1]]


Proposal

Rationale

To mark, pardon the pun, a dog "off-leash" area. As local legislation (QLD, Australia. May also be the case in other regions. IANALA) dictates that dogs are to be restrained at all times in most public parks, local council provides certain fenced off areas in which dog owners may exercise their pets unrestrained. These areas are usually within or adjacent to normal recreational parks and usually provide facilities for watering and cleaning up after dogs, and sometimes also include a doggy obstacle course

Related to

Leisure.

Rendering

A shade of green different to that of a normal park, or a dog-related icon within the bounds of the area. A stylised Scottish Terrier silhouette is suggested for the icon.

I agree. For an area i suggest a green area with my "dog's footprint" icons inside. For a node, only the icon.--Giardia 16:57, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Tag

Tag Description
leisure=dog_park Generic tag for a dog park area.
water= Indicates whether watering facilities are available, and if you need to Bring Your Own Bowl
bags= Indicates poop collection bags are provided at the facility
waste_disposal= Indicates rubbish bins are provided

Icon

I would think of this as a node.

I propose this for the Icon:
Made by Giardia with Inkscape. License: Public Domain.--Giardia 16:58, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Usage

<tag k="leisure" v="dog_park"/>
<tag k="water" v="trough"/>
<tag k="water" v="tap"/>
<tag k="water" v="yes"/>
<tag k="water" v="no"/>
<tag k="bags" v="yes"/>
<tag k="bags" v="no"/>
<tag k="waste_disposal" v="yes"/>
<tag k="waste_disposal" v="no"/>

Suggested revisions / alternatives arising during voting

See Talk:Proposed features/Dog off-leash area#Collation of usage suggestions provided during voting

Comments

Comments moved to the Talk:Proposed_features/Dog_off-leash_area page.

Voting

Type "{{vote|yes/no}}" to approve/oppose this proposal and sign with your user name & date.

leisure=dogpark exists 104 times in OSMDoc. animal=dogarea exists 4 times. It makes no sense for this *not* to be accepted. The animal keys ought to be re-evaluated too - looks like they might be used to tag areas within a zoo? I should point out as well that dog=* is also very commonly used. I guess dog=yes and dog=designated should indicate areas within a park that are signed as being ok for dogs, whereas leisure=dogpark should be used when there are specific features like fencing, poo bags etc. (I guess leisure=dogpark means human=no). Stevage 05:56, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Ok, then we still return to my first reason for rejection, though somebody need to tel those germans to change animal=dogarea. The setup and definition of this tag needs a serious rework, but refering to usages of this tag contra animal=dogarea will only help in getting this passed (when the additional tags have been cleaned up). It is better to combine it with usages of existing tags (which are likely to be used) instead of inventing a series of new tags (which are likely to be forgotten/ignored). --Skippern 09:42, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Maybe, besides the vote for the main tag "leisure=dog_park", we can add a preference for the usage suggestions provided, as i did.--Giardia 21:28, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

--- Finale result 12 yes to 4 no