On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl > wrote:
> The wiki defines the tag tourism=gallery as 'an area or typically a > building that displays a variety of visual art exhibitions' [1]. This > is an officially approved tag [2]. In addition, the wiki page on > tourism=museum [3] specifies that art galleries should be tagged as > tourism=gallery, even if they have 'museum' in the name. > > However, practice shows that the tag tourism=gallery is not very > frequently used. We have currently 54 951 instances of tourism=museum, > versus only 1 505 instances of tourism=gallery. I had a look at some > famous galleries: the MoMA in New York, the Uffizi in Florence, the > National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Van Gogh Museum in > Amsterdam, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and the Guggenheim Museum in > Bilbao. It turned out that all of them are tagged as tourism=museum. > > This might be partly caused by ignorant mappers, but perhaps there is > also a more fundamental problem. The line between a gallery and a > museum is not always easy to draw, especially in continental Europe, > where many museums have both historic and artistic exhibitions > (compare for instance the Louvre). Also the fact that many galleries > are called 'museum' does not help. > > How should we continue from here? Should we try to improve the tagging > situation? Or should we discourage tourism=gallery, making it a > subtype of tourism=museum? > The art galleries that I'm familiar with would fit better under shop. They sell artists work. Galleries in museums are rooms, usually devoted to a theme. MoMA currently has an exhibit "Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954" in the "Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries." This room could be appropriately tagged tourism=gallery, name="Prints and Illustrated Books" On the other hand, Bill Traver's Traver Gallery in Seattle exhibits that is for sale. It's tagged as shop=art. shop=art has over 5K uses. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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