On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 11:37 -0500, william skora wrote: > > Hi, > > I was curious us to hear what others have been using to tag music > venues. There's numerous places in my city that hold upwards of 1,000 > people for music concerts (also called 'shows'). In the US, they're > indoors, serve alcohol, and usually only open when there are shows. > There's usually admittance fees to enter. I'm thinking of places like > House of Blues (yes, there's restaurants adjacent to some of them, but > the one i've been to is separate from the concert venue), (Cleveland > places like Beachland Ballroom, the Grog Shop), and more famous places > like Bowery Ballroom. > > I looked on the wiki, didn't find anything besides a dead proposal - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Music_venue > That uses amenity=music_venue and has 56 uses according to taginfo. > > There's amenity=nightclub > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dnightclub but I don't > think would be a great fit, there's not dancing at the concert venues > (unless count the occasional mosh pit) that I'm describing. Plus, > maybe it's just me, nightclub don't have live performers unless you > count DJ's. > > Here's a related question on it in help - > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/13007/which-tag-should-be-used-for-a-concert-hall > amenity=concert_hall has about 67 uses according to taginfo. > > At first thought, I don't think there's an appropriate documented tag, > so I'm inclined to use amenity=concert_hall or amenity=music_venue > > Your thoughts ? > Had not really thought about this one, but I do love going to rock concerts.
I did look at my favourite venue, Rock City in Nottingham, but that is tagged as a night club. I don't think it does it justice, it does have a night club downstairs, but that is not the reason people travel from all over the country to go <to gigs> there. I saw INXS there back in the early 90s. I would support amenity=music_venue, it describes this type of place. In my mind, amenity=concert_hall is different, I would use that for posher places such as The Royal Albert Hall and Carnegie Hall. The tag live_music=yes has been used 9 times, I think that is good for somewhere like a pub that has regular live music, but live music is not its primary use. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk