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More than 27000 beaches have been identified by European Environment Agency (Q632988). This project's intention is to add more of bathing waters and beaches to Wikidata (see new property Eionet bathing Water ID (P9616)) and maybe some other bathing waters. Next step is to link existing pictures, get more pictures taken and articles written and add more properties....

• see bathingwaters.eu
• display of map of what we have added today with Eionet bathing Water ID (P9616) - SPARQL Map

• connect wikipedia articles already written in this area with Eionet bathing Water ID (P9616), see Wikidata:WP_EBath/Items
  • connect bathing waters with located in or next to body of water (P206), see map what has been done in Sweden
  • nature reserve they are located in
  • ...

see tab Wikidata:WP EBath/Items

• pictures taken, see Wikicommons:Beach
  • connect Wikidata object with a Common category using commons:Template:Wikidata_Infobox, see example commons:Category:Freibad_Berlin-Weißensee
  • connect a picture of a bathing water with the Wikidata object it depicts using Structured data SDC
    • good tool is the script commons:User:Magnus_Manske/sdc_tool.js
• connect those bathing waters with Open Street Map see Tag:leisure=swimming_area and linking from OSM to Wikidata
  • see Notebook checking Swedish bathing waters connected
• in Sweden we have connected > 2800 bathing waters and we also hope to have a dialogue with Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (Q10518645) so we can access better information about bathing waters using an API
  • when it's not recommended bathin g, see issues/118 (in Swedish)
  • swimming area and better coordinates issues/1
  • lesson learned in Sweden is that coordinates reported can sometimes not be good enough for Wikipedia, see issues and SPARQL
  • ...

The overall goal is making it easier to find bathing places and improve Wikidata objects with pictures and maybe in the long run get everything connected related to bathing waters like status of bathing, reviews, water quality, potential pollution problems....

• to mass upload a countries data we need to ask the country if the data they deliver to EEA is CC-0
  • EEA is licensed CC-BY-SA and Wikidata needs CC-0 see issues/4
• Database, see https://discodata.eea.europa.eu the WISE_BWD

• maps.eea.europa.eu StateOfBathingWaters
  • has Access and Use Constraints: Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged.

In the Swedish data we have seen coordinates of bathing waters that are not good enough for Wikidata. I have logged them in GITHUB as Issues and also changed Wikidata ranking see SPARQL. When having better sources updated Wikidata... today we dont know how to error report back to Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (Q10518645) I guess they will ask us to contact 290 Swedish municipalities that has no error reporting system ;-)

The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|European Bathing Waters}}

• see what is used today Wikidata:WP_EBath/Properties
  • in the Swedish project we have created Badkartan.se ID (P9615), which is a site for the community to add reviews of Swedish bath places
  • since before we have unique external IDs for Nature reserves and lakes in Sweden
    • Naturvårdsregistret ID (P3613) - identifier for an area protected under the Environmental Code of Sweden
    • Lake ID (Sweden) (P761) - identification code for lakes in Sweden

The Swedish Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (Q10518645) has an API with rather good data (not multilingual) --> you can see the status of the latest tests and planned activities for better water quality (sadly text strings in Swedish) see issue in Swedish

• Example bath SE0110180000001850 = WD Ängbybadet (Q10725840)
  • API containing the status and potential pollution places api/testlocationprofile / api/detail

• GITHUB EuropeanBathingWater
  • Subprojects
    • Swedish project - Svenskabadplatser - WikiProject Swedish Bath Waters (Q106774536)

Overview of current coverage in Wikidata bathingwaters.eu view

Top groupings (Minimum 1 items)		Top Properties (used at least 1 times per grouping)
Name	Count	country (P17)	coordinate location (P625)	Eionet bathing Water ID (P9616)	TripAdvisor ID (P3134)	maintained by WikiProject (P6104)	official website (P856)	described at URL (P973)	Instagram location ID (P4173)	location (P276)	located in/on physical feature (P706)	located in or next to body of water (P206)	hashtag (P2572)	street address (P6375)
Sweden (Q34)	3045	100.0% (3045) 🔍	98.98% (3014) 🔍	88.21% (2686) 🔍	1.02% (31) 🔍	100.0% (3045) 🔍	51.99% (1583) 🔍	11.56% (352) 🔍	25.55% (778) 🔍	2.36% (72) 🔍	5.02% (153) 🔍	53.37% (1625) 🔍	20.95% (638) 🔍	0.89% (27) 🔍
Italy (Q38)	37	100.0% (37) 🔍	100.0% (37) 🔍	100.0% (37) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (37) 🔍	97.3% (36) 🔍	64.86% (24) 🔍	5.41% (2) 🔍	2.7% (1) 🔍	2.7% (1) 🔍	2.7% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Denmark (Q35)	36	100.0% (36) 🔍	100.0% (36) 🔍	100.0% (36) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (36) 🔍	66.67% (24) 🔍	2.78% (1) 🔍	11.11% (4) 🔍	63.89% (23) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	69.44% (25) 🔍	5.56% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Germany (Q183)	36	100.0% (36) 🔍	100.0% (36) 🔍	97.22% (35) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (36) 🔍	97.22% (35) 🔍	66.67% (24) 🔍	19.44% (7) 🔍	13.89% (5) 🔍	2.78% (1) 🔍	19.44% (7) 🔍	22.22% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Finland (Q33)	35	100.0% (35) 🔍	100.0% (35) 🔍	97.14% (34) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (35) 🔍	100.0% (35) 🔍	80.0% (28) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	2.86% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	2.86% (1) 🔍	2.86% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Spain (Q29)	34	100.0% (34) 🔍	100.0% (34) 🔍	100.0% (34) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (34) 🔍	44.12% (15) 🔍	5.88% (2) 🔍	5.88% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	20.59% (7) 🔍	38.24% (13) 🔍	5.88% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Portugal (Q45)	32	100.0% (32) 🔍	100.0% (32) 🔍	100.0% (32) 🔍	6.25% (2) 🔍	100.0% (32) 🔍	75.0% (24) 🔍	6.25% (2) 🔍	31.25% (10) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	3.12% (1) 🔍	25.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
France (Q142)	30	100.0% (30) 🔍	100.0% (30) 🔍	100.0% (30) 🔍	3.33% (1) 🔍	100.0% (30) 🔍	70.0% (21) 🔍	70.0% (21) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	16.67% (5) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Russia (Q159)	25	100.0% (25) 🔍	88.0% (22) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	32.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Ireland (Q27)	25	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	28.0% (7) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Netherlands (Q55)	25	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	100.0% (25) 🔍	8.0% (2) 🔍	12.0% (3) 🔍	4.0% (1) 🔍	4.0% (1) 🔍	4.0% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Poland (Q36)	23	100.0% (23) 🔍	100.0% (23) 🔍	95.65% (22) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (23) 🔍	69.57% (16) 🔍	8.7% (2) 🔍	8.7% (2) 🔍	8.7% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	34.78% (8) 🔍	13.04% (3) 🔍	13.04% (3) 🔍
United Kingdom (Q145)	22	100.0% (22) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	13.64% (3) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	90.91% (20) 🔍	27.27% (6) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	4.55% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	13.64% (3) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Lithuania (Q37)	22	100.0% (22) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	100.0% (22) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	9.09% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	4.55% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Hungary (Q28)	16	100.0% (16) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Slovenia (Q215)	16	100.0% (16) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	100.0% (16) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Croatia (Q224)	15	100.0% (15) 🔍	100.0% (15) 🔍	100.0% (15) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (15) 🔍	73.33% (11) 🔍	66.67% (10) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	6.67% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Estonia (Q191)	15	100.0% (15) 🔍	100.0% (15) 🔍	100.0% (15) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (15) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	20.0% (3) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	6.67% (1) 🔍	6.67% (1) 🔍	40.0% (6) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Bulgaria (Q219)	14	100.0% (14) 🔍	100.0% (14) 🔍	100.0% (14) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (14) 🔍	100.0% (14) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Greece (Q41)	12	100.0% (12) 🔍	100.0% (12) 🔍	100.0% (12) 🔍	16.67% (2) 🔍	100.0% (12) 🔍	100.0% (12) 🔍	33.33% (4) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	16.67% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Czech Republic (Q213)	11	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	81.82% (9) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Romania (Q218)	11	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	100.0% (11) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Latvia (Q211)	9	100.0% (9) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Austria (Q40)	9	100.0% (9) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	100.0% (9) 🔍	77.78% (7) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Albania (Q222)	8	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	87.5% (7) 🔍	62.5% (5) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Ukraine (Q212)	8	100.0% (8) 🔍	75.0% (6) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Luxembourg (Q32)	8	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Slovakia (Q214)	8	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	100.0% (8) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	12.5% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	75.0% (6) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Belgium (Q31)	7	100.0% (7) 🔍	100.0% (7) 🔍	100.0% (7) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (7) 🔍	100.0% (7) 🔍	28.57% (2) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Malta (Q233)	6	100.0% (6) 🔍	100.0% (6) 🔍	100.0% (6) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (6) 🔍	100.0% (6) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
European Union (Q458)	1	100.0% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
No grouping	6	0% (0) 🔍	16.67% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	100.0% (6) 🔍	16.67% (1) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍	0% (0) 🔍
Totals (all items)	3600	99.83% (3594) 🔍	98.89% (3560) 🔍	89.03% (3205) 🔍	1.08% (39) 🔍	100.0% (3600) 🔍	56.31% (2027) 🔍	15.14% (545) 🔍	22.5% (810) 🔍	3.08% (111) 🔍	4.56% (164) 🔍	47.56% (1712) 🔍	18.42% (663) 🔍	0.83% (30) 🔍

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  Arromanches, c:Normandie
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  c:Etretat
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  [Le Tilleul
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  c:Le Havre
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  Erdeven, Morbihan, Bretagne
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  Houat
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  Kourou, in French Guiana
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  c:Nice
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  Toulon
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  Bussaglia beach, Serriera, c:Corse - Corsica

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  Westerland
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  Westerland from sea
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  beach chaits Westerland
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  Kampen

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  c:Gabicce Mare. Romagna Adriatic Cost. c:Adriatic Sea
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  c:Gabicce Monte Romagna Adriatic Cost. c:Adriatic Sea
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  c:Sicily, c:Isola Bella
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  Costa Smeralda, Sardinia
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  c:Maiori (Campania)
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  c:Campania, c:Salerno
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  Beach della Pelosa (c:Sardinia)
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  Beach of c:Sardinia
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  Cala Goloritze (c:Sardinia)
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  Isle of Spargi (c:Sardinia)
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  Isle of Tavolara (c:Sardinia)

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  Renesse beach
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  Texel beach
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  Katwijk beach
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  Ameland beach
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  Scheveningen beach

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  Bleik, c:Andenes
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  Flakstadstranda, c:Flakstad
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  Hauklandstrand, c:Haukland

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  c:Gdańsk
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  c:Gdańsk
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  c:Gdańsk
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  c:Gdynia
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  c:Sopot
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  c:Rewa
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  c:Chałupy
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  c:Frombork

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  Praia de Albandeira, Lagoa, c:Algarve
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  Praia de Carvoeiro, Lagoa, c:Algarve
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  Praia de Carvoeiro, Lagoa, c:Algarve
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  Praia dos Três Irmãos, Portimão, c:Algarve
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  Praia de Santa Eulália, c:Albufeira
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  Praia do Inatel, c:Albufeira
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  Praia da Oura, c:Albufeira
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  Praia de Porto Covo, Alentejo
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  Praia da Comporta, Grândola, Alentejo
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  Praia do Portinho da Arrábida, c:Setúbal
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  Praias da c:Costa da Caparica, c:Almada
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  Praia do Tamariz, Estoril, c:Cascais
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  Nazaré
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  Praia do Amado

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  Broadstairs
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  Scarborough
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  Scarborough
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  Goodrington
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  Southend on Sea

Projects

• European bathing water / GITHUB
  • Swedish bathing water / GITHUB - Issues
• Outdoor Gym / GITHUB - Issues
• Svenska Grillplatser / GITHUB - issues