Or if there are steps into the river or lake, or a ladder, that could be marked.
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, 03:21 Joseph Eisenberg, <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Creeks and rivers are tricky, since it's hard to confirm whether or > not they are good for swimming. Tagging sport=swimming on certain > nodes of a river or stream is sort of like a review or recommendation, > and these are not good for the main OSM database. > > The linked page says 'leisure=swimming_area' is for an "enclosed > natural water area inside a facility" and the main wiki page for the > tag says "an officially designated place where you can swim in natural > water reservoirs such as rivers, lakes or the sea. It could be marked > by e.g. signs or buoys and/or may be supervised by lifeguards" > > So if there is an area for swimming in a lake or pond (or river?) that > is delimited by floating buoys and ropes, that would be good to map. > > If there's a natural=beach you can also map that. > > -Joseph > > On 9/9/19, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Looks good Joseph. > > > > One question, thanks, which has just come to mind while I was updating > > details on a camp ground. > > > > You have swimming_pool=yes/no to say whether the camp ground has a pool > or > > not. > > > > The place I'm working on (& others that I know) doesn't have a swimming > > pool, but is on the banks of a creek, to which there is access to swim. > > > > Would that also be included under the camp ground in some way, or would > it > > be best to just draw the creek in, & possibly mark sport=swimming, or > > leisure=swimming_area alongside the camp ground? > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Swimming_and_bathing#Natural_water_where_swimming_is_possible > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Graeme > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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