Plus, you could potentially end up with hundreds of different tags defined, if a lot of people decided to add tags for their favorite dishes. It seems more reasonable to tag the general cuisine, whether food is available, whether alcohol is available, whether reservations are required (usually only at fancier establishments), and whether the establishment allows children (in the USA, at least, places that mostly deal in alcoholic beverages, rather than food, such as bars or nightclubs, are generally required to be limited to adults only by the terms of their license, but restaurants are generally open to all ages, even if they have alcoholic beverages on the menu).
-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Julius <li...@julius-net.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:28:45 To: <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Erik Johansson <erjo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ... To meet both problems you can only do this: >> alcohol=yes >> coffee=no >> pastries=yes >> egg & chips=yes > > I like this approach. I don't. I don't want to revisit each place each week to see whether the menu has changed. > > It makes much more sense than either of the other suggestions, i.e.: > 1) inventing complex explicit definitions of what a "cafe" is, > internationally or > 2) assuming complex (implicit) definitions of what a "cafe" is, and > having this differ from place to place Well, that's the way it is. The definitions have to be general enough so that they can be finetuned to match local circumstances. It would be foolish to assume that a café in Hongkong looks exactly the same as in Vienna. Also, if you only tag the menu instead of categorizing the place you only put the burden on the consumer of the data. Otherwise you get 10 icons on the map for each café (coffee, pastries, egg&chips, ...). Or, you have to ask your router to guide you to a place where they have beefsteak, beer and rum if you feel like that. Matthias _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
