you can always add access=private to private swimming pools. m.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Selfish Seahorse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Yes, that's a pity. My main interest in introducing a new tag was to > make it possible to find nearby public swimming pool facilities with > an OSM based app like Maps.me or skobbler.com. At present, with > leisure=swimming_pool used for the water area only and many private > pools tagged with it (what I think makes no sense at all), the results > are completely useless. And because the public swimming pool > facilities are all tagged differently - which results from the fact > that there is no dedicated tag -, this problem can't be solved. > > Cheers > > On 25 September 2017 at 23:17, José G Moya Y. <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi. >> It seems this conversation ended without an approval. >> >> That's a pity. I really can't understand the world divided in "sport >> swimming facilities" and "water parks". In Spain, we understand a "sport >> swimming facility" like that containing swimming pools that open 365 days, >> and where you can't really for pure recreation. Their lanes are not >> suggested paths, but forced ways. >> >> On the other way, there are "water parks" full of fun water slides. But >> these are huge, mostly private, run facilities (though I know of a public >> one in Haro, La Rioja). >> >> Apart from these, there are the (summer) public swimming pools, where you >> can do swimming for sport (if you don't mind to find people crossing though >> your lane), but are most used for fun. >> >> And there are also the standard private swimming pools, placed inside a >> leisure=garden access=private. >> >> Anyway, I will accept the resulta an I will turn my home village swimming >> pool facility into a leisure=sports_centre, since it does not contain >> slides, and despite it contains a small pool for children that is not >> available for sport swimming (unless you can turn around in 50 cm). Well, I >> remember the sports & education representative for the province saying some >> words at the opening, so maybe it was really funded from the sports budget >> as a "sports facility". >> >> The main use of the out-of-water space is sunbathing and drinking beer. May >> I suggest new sport=sunbathing tag? ;-) >> >> Oh, I can't wait the return of summer! Regards! > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
