On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > The entire reason such tagging is useful (vs. amenity=food) is that > people can ask "find me a nearby cafe". When I ask that, I want a > coffee shop that serves sandwiches, or a sandwich shop that serves > coffee, or something like that -- that I'm likely to be glad I went to. > I definitely don't want McDonald's
If I asked "find me a nearby cafe", a McCafe would be fine with me! > One of the key distinctions in practice > is that mega-corpooration heavily-advertised pseudofood is "fast food", > and independent coffee shops are "cafe". At least that's how everyone I > know sees it. Unfortunately, you don't "know" "everyone". The Coffee Club, for example, is certainly not independent, but I'd call it a cafe. > You can call this bias and subjectivity, but I call it communication > based on a shared vocabulary. I call it bias and subjectivity. It's only a shared vocabulary if the vocabulary is shared. It's one thing to define "amenity=cafe" in a certain way that may be counter-intuitive to some (that's fine! put it on the wiki! I'll look up the definition!), but it's madness to not bother defining it at all. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
