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There are a lot of huge facilities with a capacity of over 10000 that holds mixed events. For example, take a look at the pictures below that were taken in the same facility. It holds concerts, sport events, conventions, exhibitions, trade shows. What is the proper tag?

We have these:

But these facilities are not specifically any of these but all of these. I would say they are closest to a convention center (that doesn't seems like an existing tag) but usually those doesn't function as a sports center. Maybe an events center? But that is just a proposal.

exhibition sports event concert trade show

asked 28 Oct '19, 13:53

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There is also amenity=events_venue.

(28 Oct '19, 15:42) scai ♦
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amenity=events_venue is for smaller ones, and there's also leisure=events for large outdoor ones.

(28 Oct '19, 18:21) Kovoschiz
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@UntaggedWay I'm in the same pickle. What'd you end up doing? I'm thinking I'll just use amenity=events_centre and create a wiki page for it.

(24 Feb '21, 23:28) Joel Amos

@Joel Amos I ended up doing neither. I support your solution.

(30 Jun '22, 22:38) UntaggedWay

@Joel Amos: I'd really stick with conference or exhibition centre, which are intrinsically multi-use buildings (probably latter). The events centre tag is very much for much smaller places banqueting halls or similar (which are very common in some parts of the world: notably South Asia & in places with a substantial community of South Asian origin). The old Civic Arena in Pittsburgh was one such, albeit an oddity: originally designed for open air concerts with an orchestra, the Penguins home stadium for many years, but as a kid I only visited for exhibitions. Perhaps a useful alternative approach would be to merge all into events centre and then subtag it.

(01 Jul '22, 12:37) SK53 ♦

You could start by adding sports=* to a conference/exhibition/event center object if it is mainly for the latter.

But these facilities are not specifically any of these but all of these.

Sports venue tags could possibly co-exist with event venue tags. I would suggest leisure=sports_hall, which is already often used as a venue for other events in schools and communities. =sports_centre usually implies a permanent one, available for training mostly, only holding sports events sometimes. =stadium sounds too big for these.

Conversely, I could imagine someone tagging a smaller, local sports hall with amenity=events_venue if they regularly hold non-sports activity. (if it's not a =community_centre already)

I would say they are closest to a convention center (that doesn't seems like an existing tag)

It is cited as American English of "conference centre".

Maybe an events center? But that is just a proposal.

Both amenity=conference_centre and amenity=exhibition_centre are "proposals". I would support event center for reasons written there.

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answered 28 Oct '19, 18:39

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edited 28 Oct '19, 18:52

I'd say this looks like one of conference or exhibition centre (convention centre is a synonym), and in practice much more like the latter. As Kovoschiz says events_venue is in general used for much smaller places used for weddings, bar mitzvahs etc.

(29 Oct '19, 18:10) SK53 ♦
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