Talk:Tag:leisure=indoor play

In Hamburg, such place is currently tagged as a playground with fee=yes https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/412960057#map=19/53.59919/9.91541&layers=D However, I think leisure=indoor_play would be a better fit, because it's quite a different thing than a playground. To my experience, it's more of a theme park for small children than a playground. It is to playgrounds as a water park is to a swimming pool. --Westnordost (talk) 16:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Supposed controversy

Hi Polarbear w. Can I invite you to say a little bit more about why you consider this controversial? Indoor play (or soft play as it is often called) is really not what is meant by a playground. Both in language and in facilities they are very different. I think westnordost's analogy is a good one. I find amenity=playground, indoor=yes to be troll tagging. --TrekClimbing (talk) 16:47, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

@TrekClimbing: I disagree that amenity=playground indoor=yes is troll-tagging. In fact, 25 McDonald's PlayPlaces meet the leisure=indoor_play definition exactly, except that they're located outdoors. [1] leisure=indoor_play indoor=no would certainly be troll-tagging! A distinct tag for the likes of McDonald's PlayPlace, Chuck E. Cheese, and Discovery Zone would be useful, but I think it should emphasize the similarity to leisure=amusement_arcade rather than the indoor location. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 11:37, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. If it's outdoors it really doesn't meet the tag description. I don't know the places you talk of but if it's like an arcade it seems to miss the main feature of physicality I would expect from such places. I think indoor is fundamental because, at least in the UK, it makes for a very different amenity. It's also just about the British meaning of the word playground - it's a ground, it's outdoors. If the tag was play_area I could understand there being indoor and outdoor variants, but it doesn't seem so useful a group. TrekClimbing (talk) 22:06, 7 September 2024 (UTC)