Key:ref:EU:bwid
 ref:EU:bwid
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The EEA bathing water identifier 
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Status: approved
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As required by the EU Bathing Waters Directive 2006/7/EC, 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.
The identifier can be looked up in the EU interactive map "State of bathing waters in 2024" and in the data set Bathing Water Directive - Identification of Bathing Waters - look for "Deliveries", find the according country, and parse the .gml file.
The URL for the report can often be found in the .gml file as well.
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=*.