Tagging building as sports club OK?

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I have noticed that often sport clubs are tagged as an entire building. In some cases the building should most likely be leisure=sports_hall or leisure=sports_centre instead since it is not actually used by a single club but simply for sport. However, I also see many buildings tagged as club=sport that are in fact used only by one specific sports club. Is that the normal way to tag such clubhouses? I would probably just place a node on the building.

Looking at Tag:club=sport - OpenStreetMap Wiki I don’t get the impression that the tag is supposed to be used for buildings? But a proposal for Tag:amenity=clubhouse - OpenStreetMap Wiki has been rejected so is club=sport for buildings normal tagging?

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I would always separate non-building tags like club=sport from the building itself, because usually these clubs have names, and the building doesn’t, and setting building=* + club=sport + name=XXX, the name could refer to the building, or the sports club. I consider adding these tags to the building itself a quick hack – nothing more.

I’d map the club=sport separated from the building, either as a node, or as an area that spans the whole area, and also add tags like leisure=sports_centre to that POI, but not to the building.

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I have tagged buildings that are owned by a sports club and are used as their club home with

building=yes
amenity=community_centre
community_centre=club_home
community_centre:for=athlete
club=sport
sport=*
operator=*

As a name, I have used things like “FC X-Town Club Home”.
Maybe this could be done even better, but for now I’m fine with this :slight_smile:

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It is totally ok. And yes, in my mind it would be better to separate the building from the amenity and thus moving the tags associated with the community_centre either to a node or to an area covering all of the club home, including the bbq out back :wink: