Dear Dave, Steve, Philip Thank you very much for your replies.
If I understand correctly, you all advocate to use "apartment" instead of "flat". As being non-native English, I can not really judge on this (I just learned "flat" in school, so ... at may age :-) ), so no problem for me to change. On the other hand, I think it's important to keep the part "holiday" in it, since the term "apartment" is already used in "normal" buildings to specify the type of building (e.g. being residential apartments), or the number of apartments or so, and though this might lead to confusion. @Philip: I agree that we should wherever possible respect actual use of tags. But for me, 237 uses is not strong enough to make a prejudice. If the proposal is accepted, I think this can be changed later if wished. So, "tourism=holiday_apartment" should be clear that this is a flat you can actually rent for a weeks vacation or so. Do you agree on that? In general, do you think it's worth making a new tag? Thanks, Nounours P.S.: The page is still under the old name, it will be moved when (if) we get to the voting stage: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/holiday_flat > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 08:31:04 +0700 > From: Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" > <tagging@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [Tagging] How to map holiday flats? New tag > "tourism=holiday_flat" or extend existing "tourism=chalet" > Message-ID: > <cakwfyhxjdyjf2u+gpf-p65kmjxun8nqtm3on82caz1t9evv...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I think of the word "flat" as being distinctly British. I have only rarely > heard the word "flat" used to describe and apartment in the U.S. When I > first glanced at the beginning of this thread I thought the OP was > referring to flats of flowers. LOL > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Steve Doerr <doerr.step...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 02/01/2014 13:55, Philip Barnes wrote: >> >>> Hi Nounours >>> I know its an American, not an English word, but tourism=apartment has >>> 237 uses. >>> >>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/tourism=apartment >>> >>> I agree flat should be the correct term, but maybe too late to change >>> now. >>> >>> >>> >> Actually, I was just thinking that we (Brits) tend to use the word >> 'apartment' rather than 'flat' when talking about holiday lets. >> Inconsistent, I know! >> >> -- >> Steve >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
