[Tagging] Map day spas and spa resorts?

Johan Jönsson johan_jonsson at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 3 16:30:28 UTC 2014


I have written a proposal to map day spas and spa resorts, places you go to 
get relaxing treatments over the day or weekend.
Is it a good move to map these features separately?
If it is, then we could discuss the value of the tag, for the moment I just 
put down tourism=spa_resort.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Spa_resort

It is not of special interest to me, but I saw that there where a amenity=spa 
and that there were some trouble regarding the meaning of spa. So I singled 
out one popular aspect of the possible meanings of spa and made this proposal. 
What to do with the other meanings are not part of the proposal but of course 
interesting.

Trying the tag on three examples I found that the significance of this tag is 
to tag places that have lodging/hotel but where the lodging is primarily meant 
for the visitors to the establishment, in this case making it possible to stay 
a whole weekend at a spa. That is, tourism=spa_resort would fit better than 
tourism=hotel.




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