> I agree the tags are a bit limited, but I think the distinction > between restaurant and fast_food is usually a good one. > amenity=food doesn't show that it is prepared food, ready to > eat rather than a shop selling the raw materials. Adding the > extra tags to restaurant and fast_food will work by improving > what we have rather than creating a new, parallel set of tags. > > Is it worth capturing?: yes. This would be useful for someone > creating a tourist map of an area for example.
I quite liked Nick's idea, although perhaps stick with amenity=restaurant and/or amenity=fast_food rather than amenity=food; the eat_in=yes/no option would dictate whether you could eat in or not. Otherwise I would want to tag fast food restaurants with two amenity tabs which I don't think is currently supported by any editors (cf supermarket/post-office discussion - was that this list? - ah yes " The 0.6 API will not support duplicate key values."). So in my example of the KFC drive_thru with eat in area, I could use either amenity=restaurant or amenity=fast_food each with eat_in=yes takeaway=yes delivery=no drive_thru=yes name=KFC (and I don't think I'd bother with a foodtype in KFC's case, although I liked the idea - a restaurant nearby called Saffron sells some sort of eastern cuisine, but I can't remember which and a foodtype there would be useful) The difference in how it rendered would then solely be down to my choice of amenity tag, but all the information would be captured. I guess if delivery=yes then going totally over the top we could add telephone= and perhaps url= for ways to order. But that's probably going too far... I think I'll check the places I've added already (all I think as restaurant) and reconsider whether fast_food would be appropriate. I figure I might use fast_food for anywhere that doesn't have an eat_in facility even if the food doesn't arrive particularly quickly. I'll also use fast_food for any of KFC, BK, McDonalds or smaller chains doing similar even if they do have eat_in facilities. I don't think I will for Pizza Hut (unless they are one of the small delivery non-eat-in versions I've seen about), Pizza Express and so on. And I haven't even mentioned the amenity=café (or is that cafe?) Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk