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) 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  ?

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#Nature_preserve%2Freserve_and_annotating_%22free_public_access%2Fno_cost%22_and_%22things_to_do%22

Whew, too long, ok... Thoughts?