[Tagging] Swimming pool facilities

[José G Moya Y.]

Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'm ignorant. The public (and for that matter, club) pools near me are
all
> at multisport facilities and multi-use parks. (Typical configuration:
fenced-off
> swimming facility; administrative building; bathhouse; playing fields for
> football, lacrosse, baseball, horseshoes, boules; picnic facility [often
with
> one or more pavilions]; playground; parking areas; possibly some walking
> trails in an adjacent wood.)

Hi.
Well, there are different possible situations here in spain.

a) Cities. In big cities, the public facilities for swimming are either
owned by sports clubs or attached to sports facilities operated by the
municipality. Around the cities there are some water parks, also.

b) Bath towns. Spas / thermal baths that have outdoor pools, but they are
scarce (look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.81439/0.71271 to
see a location where one of such outdoor pools is. The actual pool, covered
by a shadow area in the aereal imaginery, is unmapped).  Another bath town,
in http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.20895/-2.24060 has its spa
outdoor facilities tagged as sports_centre.

c) Small municipalities. Small municipalities get their facilities in a
somehow unplanned way, since they build the facility when they have
budget/get funding to do so. Heres is an example:

If you look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.25569/-2.62770
you'll see a swimming facility, a park, a school and a sports centre. Lets
see the site history:

   1. The first thing built there was the school. It was built on the 70s
   to give service to the Spanish baby boom of the 70s, and now is almost
   abandoned.
   2. On the early 80s the village got funding to build a swimming pool.
   The excuse was getting a service for the school (so you could think this is
   a sports centre). I don't know whether the swimming pool has been ever used
   by school.
   3. On the late 80s, neglected building practices ruined the local pelota
   court wall. After this, the village got funding to build an indoor sports
   facility in the school, where five-a-side football tournament were held
   after the ruin of the pelota court. Another pelota court was build, also.
   4. On the nineties, a park was created in the riverside.

So, the pool preceded the indoor sports centre. BUT you can consider it a
sports centre, since the excuse to build it was the practice of swimming as
sport, and aquagym and swimming classes take place inside it.



2017-09-27 12:13 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:38:15 +0200
> Selfish Seahorse <selfishseahorse at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> (2) indoor swimming pools seem not to be tagged
>
> Because they do not appear on imagery, so fewer people are in a
> position to map them... But nothing keeps anyone from tagging them.
>
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