John, I think you will find that many water/ice sports including the ones you mention have specific requirements regarding the pools/rinks. A pool for water polo/swimming/diving/ice hockey as a proper sport requires that a pool/rink be of a certain shape, size and depth and with certain markings, and be fitted with certain features such as starting blocks and goals. It's like a "pitch" with surface=water/ice.
Yes I know you can swim as a leisure activity in almost any bit of water, but you can also play soccer in the park with jumpers as goalposts. But that is just a leisure activity, not an organised sport as such. --colin On 2016-01-06 02:35, John Willis wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> my opinion on this is that swimming is so different from other sports that >> I'd use a different main tag for the structure. > > +1 > > Most "sports centres" are built around the idea of pitches/fields/courts of > some sort. Solid expanses of walkable area, with specialty rooms for > individual sports that also take place while on solid ground. > > These are multiuse facilities, usually, built around the idea of pitches. > Even with nets and lines, many sports can be played on a single pitch - but > swimming/water polo/diving doesn't use pitches. It is not a specialized > pitch, like a tennis court or soccer field. This is similar to ice > skating/hockey and skiing/mountain biking runs. They are not pitches in the > normal sense. > > So facilities that cater to pitch oriented and related sports are easily > called a sports centre - our sports centres also have kendo/judo and Sumo > rooms, as well as normal wrestling - but you would expect to find > wrestling/gymnastics/weightlifting at a sports centre. Specialized sports, > but still on foot. > > A really large sports centre may have a pool on the grounds as well. It is > merely a pool. > > Aquatics center is its own beast. It is a stand-alone facility dedicated to > swimming, with 1 main pool and related facilities (usually many pools) and no > pitches - a separation seen in real life throughout the world. > > Javbw > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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