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

[Simone Saviolo]

2012/6/26 Michael Krämer <ohrosm at googlemail.com>

> Hello,
>
>
> 2012/6/26 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>
>
>> 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 am a bit confused by  'fee_' in the tag. From my experience there is no
> direct connection between a 'blue_flag' and any fee.
>

It's not "fee" as in "charge a price", it's "FEE" as in "Foundation for
Enviornmental Education" (don't worry, it took me a while too :-) ).


> By the way, at least in Germany it's actually provided for beaches or
> marinas, not communites. So at least here the proposed tagging would
> perfectly make sense.


 I thought it was an Europe-wide acknowledgement, then I find out it's
worldwide... but actually the rules change from nation to nation?

Simone
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