Changes for tagging capacity/maxtents on campsites and update for https://opencampingmap.org/
Posted by giggls on 29 December 2020 in English. Last updated on 3 January 2021.Unfortunately the current tagging of capacity on campsites is ambiguous at best. While on backcountry and scout sites capacity is often seen a the maximum number of persons allowed, on tourist sites mappers often tend to tag the number of pitches available for tents or caravans using this tag.
Thus following a recent discussion on the tagging mailinglist I changed this to be more consistent and similar to existing tags (caravans, tents).
I also changed the bugs view on https://opencampingmap.org/ to warn about the now obsoleted tags capacity and maxtents.
Now mappers should use the following tags instead:
capacity:persons for the maximum number of persons allowed to stay at a site if limited.
capacity:tents for the number of tent pitches available or maximum number of tents allowed.
capacity:caravans for the number of caravan pitches available or maximum number of caravans allowed.
I already changed this in the Wiki for German and English Language.
Please help me changing this in the Wiki for other languages as well.
I also need some help for fixing the localization of https://opencampingmap.org/ for French, Spanish an Russian language. Please contact me if you are a native speaker and can help me with a couple of sentences. Or just send a pull-request for the sourcecode at https://github.com/giggls/opencampsitemap
Discussion
Comment from giggls on 30 December 2020 at 12:25
Looking at taginfo I found out, that capacity:persons is an already established tag. So we should just use this one. I accordingly changed the blog-entry.
Comment from jonsger on 9 January 2021 at 14:38
Danke für das Engagement in diesem Bereich! Ich hab mein persönliches Tagging schon daran angepasst :)
Eine Baustelle sind noch die Tagging Voreinstellung, die u.a. von ID verwendet werden: https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/blob/main/data/presets/tourism/camp_site.json
Da wird aktuell noch
capacity
verwendet, müsste man dann in die drei Subtypen spliten. Dann aber vonFields
nachmoreFields
verschieben, sonst wirds zu unübersichtlich…Comment from giggls on 9 January 2021 at 14:47
As I already wrote using capacity for campsites is a bad idea because the key is ambiguous.
Is this repo the right place to open an issue? Will you do so?
Comment from jonsger on 9 January 2021 at 14:53
I guess. So I will create a PR there…
Comment from tyr_asd on 15 December 2021 at 11:27
FYI: the PR was merged today and will soon be used in iD. Thanks for the the initiative and for your patience.
Comment from giggls on 15 December 2021 at 12:06
Thanks.
I wonder if we should also try to establish a capacity:pitches tag as an alternative to capacity:caravans and capacity:caravans.
The rationale behind this is that there are quite a lot of sites where only the number of pitches is counted and people with tents have to use one of those as well rather than a separate tent only area.