Zoos in the United Kingdom

2018-09-24: a Freedom Of Information request has identified 330 licenced zoos/aquariums/safari parks https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wMDxyyFztfpQe5J86Kq5fuj19wO5Z-8kGxsA_JFzii0/edit#gid=866938953

A project could be started to check this list against OSM (and maybe feedback to the FOI requester)

Note: It may be sensible to resubmit the FOI request, as the list is out of date, it also potentially have errors that need updating. "Eshott Heugh Animal Park" (I believe should've been Eschottheugh Animal Park) got zoo-status and renamed to Northumberland County Zoo (it has been updated and mapped on OSM).

Suggested process and tags

• Tag:tourism=zoo
• Tag:tourism=aquarium
• Tag:attraction=animal is a part of a zoo and not really the whole thing

Overpass query

 [out:json][timeout:25];
 // gather results
 (
   // query part for: “tourism=zoo”
   node["tourism"="zoo"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   way["tourism"="zoo"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   relation["tourism"="zoo"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   // query part for: “tourism=aquarium”
   node["tourism"="aquarium"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   way["tourism"="aquarium"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   relation["tourism"="aquarium"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   // query part for: “attraction=animal”
   node["attraction"="animal"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   way["attraction"="animal"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
   relation["attraction"="animal"]((bbox={{{minlon}}},{{{minlat}}},{{{maxlon}}},{{{maxlat}}}));
 );
 // print results
 out body;
 >;
 out skel qt;