[Tagging] Tagging Blue flags (Foundation for Environmental Education's Blue flag criteria for beaches and marinas)

[Simone Saviolo]

2012/6/26 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>

> The Blue Flag is a voluntary eco-label awarded to 3849 beaches and marinas
> in 46 countries across Europe, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, New Zealand,
> Brazil, Canada and the Caribbean.
>
> More about it here: http://www.blueflag.org
>
> I suggest a "fee_blue_flag=yes" tag which should be used in combination
> with "leisure=beach_resort" or "leisure=marina". This could be useful for
> easy searching of well equipped, maintained and clean beaches and marinas
> for tourists. And it's a nice project for mappers on vacation :)


I agree with the usefulness - even though any superficial research on a
locality will tell you if it's been awarded the Blue Flag, as
administrations and tourism offices usually brag quite enough about that :-)

However, as far as I know, the Blue Flag is awarded on a Commune basis, so
I don't think it would be ok to tag a marina or a beach resort. For
example, in Italy, Varazze is traditionally a Blue Flag city, and no beach
in the Commune's territory (or, if you wish, *all* of them) are Blue Flag
beaches. On the other hand, it never happens that a particular resort
sports the Blue Flag if the Commune doesn't.

Ciao,

Simone
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