On 3 May 2010, at 5:18 , Greg Troxel wrote: > > Katie Filbert <filbe...@gmail.com> writes: > >> * Baskin Robbins (fast food?) > > This is the missing ice cream shop I think. But if they serve other > food, it's made to order, and they have table service - restaurant. > >> * Fuddruckers (restaurant or fast food?) > > tough call > >> * Panera Bread (restaurant or cafe?) > > cafe - food is made to order, and while fast, it's real food. > > Basically my rules are: > > restaurant: full menu, table service, can walk in for dinner or lunch > and get a proper meal > > fast food: pre-made hamburgers etc. with counter ordering. tends to > be not 'real food' from the foodie-nut point of view. definitely > burger king etc. is this category. I also put dunkin donuts in this > category. > > cafe: place to get coffee and light food, typically no table service, > but limited menu. (You may ask: what's the difference between cafe and > fast food? 1) cafe has 'real food' vs chemically engineered > pseudofood. 2) cafe tends to be a nice place to go vs a place to go > when you don't have time to eat and are desparate. That has lots of > bias, but it's an important distinction. I'd put starbucks here, just > barely. independent coffee shops almost certainly. > > ice cream stand - this is tough, and it's sort of like a cafe that has > ice cream instead. > > I try to think: what will map users want to know. This is all heading > down the slippery slope of a full ontology for the world and also > encoding judgement. My bias is clear: a cafe is a nice place to go, > fast food is to be avoided. >
good summary. and because of the rule "fast food to be avoided" I rarely map these. and interestingly I see more real restaurants and cafe in osm. are most mappers foodies? > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
