On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > The Dutch cafe example is parallel to the motel / love_hotel example from > Brazil and other countries. Sometimes a term has quite different uses in > different cultures, and these are traps for all travellers. The question of > whether the same tag has the same meaning wherever it is or whether meaning > has to be gained from context, as we do now with traditional paper based > maps, > remains in discussion. >
The other question is whether or not OSM wants to be a map or a travel guide. I'm liking more and more the suggestion to tag the cafe/motel with building=yes and addr:*=*, and leave the rest to the travel guides and yellow pages. Perhaps power plants are big and recognizable enough to be an exception to this rule, but when you have to go inside an establishment and read their menu before you can determine how to tag the place, are we really mapping "what's on the ground"?
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