I've slept in some pretty nice places that had exterior room access. I wouldn't call that out as the only demarcating property. To my mind it's a combination of location, amenities and layout / architecture.
Interesting discussion! Martijn van Exel > On Mar 8, 2019, at 18:03, Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote: > > For me the difference is interior hallway to access room (hotel) vs exterior > access to each room (motel). > > >> On March 8, 2019 4:47:33 PM PST, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote: >> How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags? >> >> The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story building >> where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of your room. A >> hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story where most >> guests cannot park directly outside their room. >> >> There's the curious case of the two Motel 6 facilities directly across the >> road from each other. I had marked these as tourism=hotel based on the >> building architecture, but maybe all Motel 6's should be tourism=motel? >> >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570 >> >> What do you think? >> >> Thanks, >> Peter >> > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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