Talk:Tag:sport=athletics

What is the best way to tag an athletics... er... place? I've tried to map sport centres where there's a soccer pitch in the middle, surrounded by a running track and areas for athletics.

• Should the athletics areas be keyed as "pitch" or "track", or something else?
• Should the soccer pitch be keyed as an "inner" multipolygon?

-Abbedabb 10:15, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Athletics is not a single sport, but a group of sports.

I don't use this tag. 'Athletics' is a group of sports, each sport can, and should, be tagged as individual sports.

A running tack is a simple way .. or a =relation with inner and outer if you want that detail tagged leisure=track, sport=running. Another sport can be placed in the centre eg a way with leisure=pitch, sport=soccer. Warin61 (talk) 03:53, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Steeplechase barrier tagging

Rather than tagging the steeplechase jump barrier as barrier=yes (which causes validators to complain), there is already a documented tag barrier=steeplechase_jump in use for horse racing. --Rskedgell (talk) 08:43, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Sand pits: natural versus surface.

The wiki article currently recommends natural=sand for long jump pits. Would it make more sense for this to be surface=sand? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beakerboy (talk • contribs) 14:02, 22 February 2022‎

I think so. Also for the pitches. --Hufkratzer (talk) 21:20, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

I think that both are OK, but I would prefer surface=sand Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 22:03, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Depends on the mapping. If a relation is used and the sand pit is a member along with the run up as another member then both members can have main tags of natural=sand/grass/artificial_turf/* - this would provide the best mapping I think. The relation then has the sport tagging.Warin61 (talk) 08:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

relations seems to add here significant complexity for little to no benefit Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 09:21, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

oneway=* is a legal tag

oneway=* is a legal tag. Using it for runways (currently recommended here) seems very strange to me. --Hufkratzer (talk) 22:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Not totally wrong here? They are marked to make you move in that direction. It's part of the rules. --- Kovposch (talk) 05:48, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

I am pretty sure that running the wrong way is against rules. oneway=* is also used where violating it is against regulations which are not laws Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 08:29, 24 February 2022 (UTC)