This was discussed at the main Tagging mailing list a couple of months ago:
Start of thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-December/041597.html Continuation in January: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-January/041720.html The wiki page for Motel was updated at that time: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Atourism%3Dmotel A number of people said that the name on the sign is the main way to distinguish a hotel vs a motel, but some thought that the easy access to no-fee motor vehicle parking from the rooms was also a useful distinction. On 3/9/19, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
