Hi It may be a localisation problem or semantics but it appears that alpine hut / regular hut / shelter / etc. definitions or perceptions vary between countryies as previously stated:
This is my interpretation of an Alpine Hut - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_hut "In the United Kingdom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom> and Ireland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland> the tradition is of unwardened "climbing huts" providing fairly rudimentary accommodation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothy The problem with the is that these definition doesn't fit my situation in New Zealand and we have a network of over 900 back country huts An alpine hut in NZ might look more like this: http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-stay/backcountry-huts-by-region/west-coast/franz-josef-area/centennial-hut/ or http://alpineguides.co.nz/info/huts/tasman_saddle.htm .... but sorry not restaurants!! My intention with my proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/wilderness_mountain_buildings was to create a generic tagging system for buildings, where features are tagged/listed, hopefully to avoid the localisation problems ie. the "you say potato, I say potaaato" problem ? cheers.......gerkin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk