Hi Community!
We are currently in discussions about possibly introducing a new property
that might simply be called* "activity" or "activities"* to hold the
value
of a popular *"things to do"* that you typically see in search results when
looking around tourist attractions, parks, etc.
The risk is that of large lands, administrative territories, or country
being abused, but this could be mitigated by disallowing that new property
on those broader kinds of instances where it doesn't make sense. I.E. a
proposed property would likely be much more specific to things that
typically do have activities as advertised or managed by governments
through various amenities or resources, such as "boating" because the
government maintains a "boat ramp" for public use, etc. And would *not
allow* something like Switzerland
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39 =
"activity": "snow skiing" as an example.
"activity" has a corollary with "amenity" which is different.
"swimming"
an activity *is not* "swimming pool" an amenity.
The discussion over this new property is likely to directly overlap with
OpenStreetMap and their properties and tags (some of which are enumerated),
where they have Tag:amenity=swimming pool (new tag is leisure:swimming pool)
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dswimming_pool> as an
example. Some activities are *a sport*, and others are *not a sport*.
In
Schema.org, we already have
https://schema.org/TouristAttraction but
there's no property already made to hold "hasActivities" for example. (but
we could in the future if deemed useful) @Dan Brickley <danbri(a)google.com>
?
Also, a new property like "activity" or "has activities" would align
quite
well to many search services such as Google, Bing, Yandex having similar
lookup services such as
https://www.google.com/search?q=activities+near+me
as well as Government services such as
https://www.recreation.gov like
https://www.recreation.gov/search?q=boating and several other European and
international lookup services.
The initial discussion is here if you want to see some of the provenance
and work I've been doing:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Protected_areas#Nat…
Whew, too long, ok... Thoughts?
Thad
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