A quick check on taginfo only directed me to one Outward Bound centre (that in Eskdale Green), and that is just tagged as a building. They have 6 centres. Another organisation rather different in scope is the Field Studies Council with around 12 centres. Provision by LEA is declining (the Castleton centre is now a Youth Hostel), but better off schools will often have their own dedicated centre. Plas-y-Brenin <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/374805099#map=18/53.10222/-3.91711>, which is more directly sport oriented, is only mapped as buildings..
These are fairly distinct institutions with a mix of education & leisure objectives: with their primary role being education (certainly from a financial perspective & the need to have instructors DBS (CRB) checked). If we had a widely used top-level education key, I'd use that, but as most, if not all, education-related places use the amenity key, that's where I'd start. So I'd suggest something like amenity=outdoor_education_centre or amenity=outdoor_learning_centre. Sub-tagging could be used to distinguish those with a bent towards physical activities versus those which do field study. Plas-y-Brenin does fit the leisure=sports_centre suggested by DanS. There must be at least a hundred, if not several hundred such facilities in the UK. I'm aware of similar places in many alpine villages in the Swiss Alps (e.g., a " Ferien- und Schulungszentrum" near Ilanz), and passed the "Maison des Salines" <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/94079741> in Brittany, shortly after SotM-France. ( The latter appears to be used as a Colonie des Vacances, so I tagged this as leisure=holiday_camp.). Therefore I would think there are good reasons not to try & coerce these places into an existing tagging scheme. In addition to ones providing accommodation & classroom facilites, many wildlife trusts, and similar bodies, have smaller centres for non residential courses. Ones I know well are: Attenborough Nature Centre, Idle Valley Rural Learning Centre <http://www.nnc.ac.uk/idle-valley-rural-learning-centre>, and the Wyre Forest Discovery Centre <http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-6frd7h>. Many of these will share a building with a cafe and shop and perhaps other facilities. On a closing note, one of my favourite such places at Gibraltar Point, which I stayed at as recently as November 2012, was wrecked by a storm surge in 2013 <http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/gibraltar-point-education>. Jerry On 21 January 2016 at 08:10, Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have a good answer, but I had a similar problem when trying to > tag a "Go Ape" outdoor centre last year. If you search for "Go Ape" > you find many different taggings around the country, including: > > leisure=sports_centre > tourism=attraction > tourism=theme_park > leisure=high_ropes_course > leisure=playground > > Possibly one of the top three is suitable for this? I'd like to hear > what other people think. > > Best > Dan > > 2016-01-20 23:17 GMT+00:00 <alasd...@dunakin.me.uk>: > > Hi again, > > > > thanks for the responses to my last question. > > > > I'm now trying to correct the tagging for an Outdoor Education Centre. It > > has been tagged (understandably in my point of view) as amenity=school > but > > obviously isn't a school. So the question is, what should it be tagged > as? > > I've looked through the wiki and can't see anything relevant but I'm > aware > > that the knowledge in this group sometimes surpasses that of the wiki. > > > > The centre in question is Lagganlia http://www.lagganlia.com/ near > Aviemore > > in the Highlands which is owned by City of Edinburgh. I fondly remember > > going there 3 or 4 times for Geography field trips and school skiing > weeks > > 20 years ago. > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Al. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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