[Tagging] Swimming pool facilities

[Warin]

On 18-Sep-17 07:33 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:56:59 +0200
> Selfish Seahorse <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 September 2017 at 09:42, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>
>> wrote:
>>> "sport=swimming for a centre containing one or more swimming pools
>>> that is mainly focussed on swimming as a sport, including swimming
>>> lessons. Use however leisure=swimming_pool to indicate the water
>>> areas"
>> This conflicts a bit with the definition of sports centre being a
>> 'distinct facility where a *range of sports* take place'.
> Hello semi-colon value separator !
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Semi-colon_value_separator
>
> sport=swimming;water_polo;fitness;scuba_diving

Your forgetting that swimming sports themselves can be separated up in to categorise;
  butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, medley and then relay.
Same with the sport running.


>   
>> Apart from that, as José mentioned, the main problem is that sports
>> centre does not seem to be appropriate for an outdoor swimming pool
>> facility that is mainly used for recreation but doesn't meet the
>> criteria of a water park.
> Lounging & splashing around is a common use of sport swimming
> facilities, but their designed use remains swimming as a sport. If it
> has swimming lanes, it is definitely part of sport=swimming. If it
> doesn't have swimming lanes, then it may lean on the side of the
> leisure=water_park
>

Where I have found pools with no lane marking then I have tagged leisure=swimming_pool but no sport=* tag.
There are 'pools' too shallow for swimming too, those might be better to have another tag?