Hi, Toerisme Vlaanderen wants to share its databases with us. There are accomodations like hotels, but also many others. I'm going to start by treating the hotels.
Here are 2 examples, which I entered from a combination of their information, bing, personal knowledge and contacting them by phone: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/109571527 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/139842631 The question is, of course: are those tags OK, or should I use a different scheme alltogether. I included one reference to a picture url, but there are many others. I'd prefer to mention the base url once and then add a list of serial numbers in another field. This would save storage space, but who is going to be smart enough to reassemble that construction? When a hotel claims to have a swimming pool, but then the swimming pool is a public one nearby, I marked it like this: hotel:swimming_pool = yes;Triton. I did the same for the parking facilities of the hotel in Leuven: hotel:parking = yes;Ladeuze As far as the swimming pool goes, I could also simply have added no and let the users use the map to locate the pool on their own, of course. In the case of the parking, the hotel in Leuven does have an agreement with Ladeuze parking and they offer their customers a rebate, so the connection is a little bit stronger there. There are also descriptions in various languages available, but they are longer than 255 characters, so I dropped them again. It will probably be too hard to keep those up to date anyway. What is missing at the moment, is a deep link to the website of Toerisme Vlaanderen, where interested people can consult all the information as well. When I have those, should I use website:ToerismeVlaanderen= for that? Jo
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