Key:ref:EU:bwid

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Description
The EEA bathing water identifier Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: references
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
Status: approvedPage for proposal

As required by the EU Bathing Waters Directive, the European Environment Agency (EEA) holds a publicly available dataset of all bathing waters in the EU member states, Albania, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. In this dataset, every water has a unique identifier, the bathingWaterIdentifier.

This key marks this identifier on a mapped object.

How to map

The tag is placed on the object, that would be identified the "bathing site". In case of lakes, mostly on lakes themselves, at rivers or beaches often on the beaches. A good rule of thumb is to place the tag on the object, which also has the site's name=* tag.

Additionally, if provided in the EEA's dataset, the bathing water's URL can also be specified using url:bathing_water=*.