On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:23:27AM +0100, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > On 19 December 2015 at 03:11, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > I would call it leisure=aquatic_center if it is based around pool based > > exercise/ sports/ competition and leisure=water_park for recreation (like a > > theme park with slides and splashing and tube pools and whatnot. > > I like this one, and I think going with two main tags, water_park and > aquatic_centre (I think we should use UK spelling), is a viable > option.
I have only skimmed this thread, but as a native British English speaker, I have to say, as others have mentioned, that these will be completely misunderstood in the UK. A water park is typically a natural area with lakes mainly for wildlife, although perhaps boating and maybe, just maybe but very rarely, swimming. But not a swimming pool (well, perhaps there are exceptions). An aquatic centre would normally contain aquaria with typically sea creatures, often associated with research. A sort of sea-museum. Definitely no swimming pool, although I suppose that a very eccentric such centre might offer the experience of swimming with dolphins, but I doubt it. As for better terms, swimming_pool is widely understood. swimming_facility is a bit ugly but perhaps. I don't really have any good suggestions, although something like sports_centre with a sub-tag swimming=yes seems to capture most such places in a natural way. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
