[Tagging] Swimming pool facilities

[Marc Gemis]

you can always add access=private to private swimming pools.

m.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Selfish Seahorse
<selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes, that's a pity. My main interest in introducing a new tag was to
> make it possible to find nearby public swimming pool facilities with
> an OSM based app like Maps.me or skobbler.com. At present, with
> leisure=swimming_pool used for the water area only and many private
> pools tagged with it (what I think makes no sense at all), the results
> are completely useless. And because the public swimming pool
> facilities are all tagged differently - which results from the fact
> that there is no dedicated tag -, this problem can't be solved.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 25 September 2017 at 23:17, José G Moya Y. <josemoya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>> It seems this conversation ended without an approval.
>>
>> That's a pity. I really can't understand the world divided in "sport
>> swimming facilities" and "water parks". In Spain, we understand a "sport
>> swimming facility" like that containing swimming pools that open 365 days,
>> and where you can't really for pure recreation. Their lanes are not
>> suggested paths, but forced ways.
>>
>> On the other way, there are "water parks" full of fun water slides. But
>> these are huge, mostly private, run facilities (though I know of a public
>> one in Haro, La Rioja).
>>
>> Apart from these, there are the (summer) public swimming pools, where you
>> can do swimming for sport (if you don't mind to find people crossing though
>> your lane), but are most used for fun.
>>
>> And there are also the standard private swimming pools, placed inside a
>> leisure=garden access=private.
>>
>> Anyway, I will accept the resulta an I will turn my home village swimming
>> pool facility into a leisure=sports_centre, since it does not contain
>> slides, and despite it contains a small pool for children that is not
>> available for sport swimming (unless you can turn around in 50 cm). Well, I
>> remember the sports & education representative for the province saying some
>> words at the opening, so maybe it was really funded from the sports budget
>> as a "sports facility".
>>
>> The main use of the out-of-water space is sunbathing and drinking beer. May
>> I suggest new sport=sunbathing tag? ;-)
>>
>> Oh, I can't wait the return of summer! Regards!
>
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