Clarification on the mapping of bathing places

Great initiative.

Your thoughts make a lot of sense to me (though I can’t say I have much experience mapping these kinds of places).

Just one thing surprised me:

Why? Are you suggesting we “double tag” the same area with two leisure tags? Or do you mean that there should be a bathing_place node near a swimming_area area? What would be the point of that, isn’t it just recording the same information twice? Of course, if you’ve looked at the data and this is how people map, I won’t complain if you document it in the Wiki :slight_smile:

I suspect this is partly because public_bath renders on the “main map” (OSM Carto) and bathing_place doesn’t…

Interesting, 66% of uses of leisure=bathing_place are in Sweden, but only 19% of all leisure=swimming_areas, 4% of all amenity=public_baths… I wonder why that is?

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