One of the wonderful quirks of the English language is that we use the term aquarium to describe both a large scale tourist attraction as well as an individual water-filled vivarium (of any size).
In OSM, we have the tag tourism=aquarium which is supposed to be used only for the large-scale tourist attraction (i.e. multiple, large tanks, pay entry etc.). However, it does appear it is also being used for individual aquaria, which we might colloquially call a “fish tank”.
I’d like to see the large scale aquaria rendered in Carto (as they are important tourist attractions) but one of the issues is that there’s a mix of usage of this tag.
My suggestion is that:
tourism=aquariumis used only for the large scale tourist attraction (e.g., similar to a zoo or museum)attraction=animal+animal=fishis used for individual fish tanks. These could be either located inside atourism=aquariumor as stand-alone items such as a large fish tank in the centre of a shopping mall for instance- I’m unsure about tanks inside a pet shop (
shop=pet+pet=fish) or restaurant. They could be tagged asattraction=animal+animal=fishbut I’m not sure they’re really an “attraction” as we currently define it.
Thoughts?
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