There seem to be several dimensions to this. "Bathing" can mean
different things to different people, with different English
words/usage. I can give a few examples.
Firstly, the activity itself:
* to get clean (with soap etc)
* to exercise or as a sport (swimming pool with lanes)
* as a recreation (river/beach/recreational swimming pool)
On a different dimension, there is the construction of the facility:
* indoor (turkish baths, swimming pool etc)
* outdoor+manmade (outdoor swimming pool)
* outdoor+natural (river/beach etc)
Then there is the "type" of water:
* natural, seawater
* natural, fresh water
* natural, geothermal
* "manmade" (swimming pool with heavily treated water)
These three attributes can probably exist in the real world in any
combination. I would suggest tagging them separately, to allow full
flexibility and minimise ambiguity.
For the activity, we already have leisure=swimming_pool, for sporting or
recreational swimming in a manmade construction. The optional addition
of sport=swimming differentiates between sport and recreation, but this
can't in itself handle "mixed" facilities. The main activity at a
Turkish Bath would probably be getting clean. Isn't it close to the
function of a sauna? There's already amenity=sauna with a proposal to
change to leisure=sauna.
Colin
On 11/03/2012 17:15, Johan Jönsson wrote:
In older days and in some parts of the world the public bath is an amenity and
not a leisure. I am sticking to trying to find one tag for the leisure-bath
establishments, but it might be possible to find a general tag encompassing
both leisure and amenity and then have subtags to discern them. One such
solution would be to not tag the physical place (the bathing-place) but
instead use a non-physical tag that states "come here when you want to bathe".
For the leisure-baths I was thinking about using some kind of subtags
leisure=bath
bath:outdoor= yes
bath:indoor=no
or maybe
leisure=bath
bath:outdoor= sea, pool, lake, river, hot_spring
bath:outdoor= beach, cliff, pier, pool, lake, river, hot_spring
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