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Armchair guess:
ex-tennis, now parking.
Painted lines for parking spaces is newer than tennis court marking.
Even the oldest imagery has parking spaces visible.
Also, two lightiing poles match the style of those in the adjacent car park.
And, the trench dug to bury the power for the streetlights can be seen heading along the service drive to the northeast, to the first pole within the area, from which it takes a peculiar diversion to the second one.
This scar has not been overpainted, and likely has created a surface unsuitable for tennis. And while the streetlamps are not placed in the middle of the courts, the location seems suboptimal for serious play.
Of course, an on-the-ground observer can say whether the courts ever see use, which I cannot say (no net shadows to be seen, but no telltale lakes of oil in the proud british tradition here), plus relate the timeline of their use.
The original court floodlights, with overhead wiring, can also be seen in the Mapbox imagery and the archive ESRI Bing.
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Thanks for this interesting midday diversion
Thanks for your interesting in osm notes and how do we decide in this cases
Normally you would go to the place and check it out i person.
However, I see you are editing for Mapbox, and it appears that Mapbox mappers, perhaps mostly in India, have taken a particular interest in mapping around Atlanta, Georgia the past days.
This would also explain the peculiar times when these notes appear, at what would be the middle of the night in Atlanta, not during school class or working hours local to the area.
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So, the only thing to do is to leave this note open, in the hope that within the next ten or fifty years or so, there will be a local mapper in the area, who checks out unresolved notes, and sees this one and decides to act on it.
That's not likely to happen in the next days or months, if ever, going by the number of open bug-reports (more than 28 thousand) over the country, many of which have remained unattended to for years.
I'll see if I can go in there in a few days. It'll be somewhat dependent on whether or not the church has the gate open or not.
Drove through it today. It is indeed a parking lot, for the church, and the paint stripes on the ground look as bad as they do in areal imagery. (Mapillary sequences being uploaded.) I don't know when it would have been tennis courts, unless the church building used to be a gym or sports club or something (which would have been >20 years ago, if that's the case).