On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:49 PM, caller#6 < meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2014 03:30 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > 2014/1/2 Ben Ockmore <ben.s...@gmail.com> > >> Concert Hall >> Community Building/Religious Building >> Stadium >> Club >> Arena >> Outdoor Space >> Theatre >> Bandstand >> >> Are all types that could be useful to have. I don't think we should >> split categories based on acoustic properties here, since it's an attribute >> of a place, and should go towards describing the type place, not its >> acoustic properties. Acoustic properties can be modified, and vary >> considerably between places of the same type (eg. sound baffles in concert >> halls). >> > > I agree the acoustical properties of a place can be modified (although > making a stadium sound like a real church would be tricky). But if you > don't split them on acoustical properties, what useful types are left apart > from those already existing? "Other" seems enough as it correctly describes > churches. Splitting on the fact that a place is used or not for religion > seems OT in MB IMO. I may be wrong, but I don't think a user will one day > need an easy way to select together the cathedrals and the Buddhist > temples. If not for acoustical reasons, why would we need to split Other? > > > I'm not sure what makes a church (or stadium) "other". Maybe it's a > translation thing? To me, a church is as much a venue as anything. > > It seems to me like finer granularity is better handled in wikidata or by > some other authority (although I guess that only works for "notable" > places, which could be a problem). > For me something being a "venue" certainly implies its main purpose is music - a church does feel very much not like a venue to me.
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