Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
 Cafe - Place to buy and consume light snacks and NON-Alcoholic Drinks
 (Tea, Coffee, Coke etc) on site. Usually Unlicensed.

Good luck finding one in Eastern Europe. Can't survive without selling
booze. Alcohol is essential for cafe to survive but otherwise it is
clearly cafe.

 Pub - Place to buy and consume Alcoholic Drinks on site, (may also
 retail Non-Alcoholic Drinks, Snacks and sometimes Food)

Mostly food and alcohol, but heavy influence of second one. Food
usually not so bad, but very expensive. But mostly I agree with
definition.

 Bar - Place to buy Alcoholic Drinks within a large establishment,
 maybe with a hotel, or holiday complex, may share its seating with
 other vendors.

Not only. Bars sometimes are single entities, combined with several
slot machines.

 The line is weather it sells Beer, or other Alcoholic Beverages,

Line to distuingish what?

 Peter.

Cheers,
also Peter :)

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/20 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org


 In my book its easy.

 Cafe - Place to buy and consume light snacks and NON-Alcoholic Drinks
 (Tea, Coffee, Coke etc) on site. Usually Unlicensed.



in many countries you will find alcohol in cafés as well. In a café I would
before all expect a professional coffee-machine and someone able to use it
properly. Then I would expect a certain style (chairs and tables), opened
usually from morning (or noon) to the evening, sometimes nighttime, almost
never till very late. Snacks I would usually replace with cake and
cookies.



 Pub - Place to buy and consume Alcoholic Drinks on site, (may also
 retail Non-Alcoholic Drinks, Snacks and sometimes Food)


might also retail alcoholic drinks (in Germany and Italy, they do all, still
a German Pub will look different (style) from what the Germans (and not
only) call an Irish Pub, which is precisely corresponding to a Pub in
the UK/Ireland. Most of the irish pubs offer a small selection of food and
snacks, german pubs often don't offer food (unless they call themselfes
restaurant). They (mostly, nearly all) do offer draught beer.




 Bar - Place to buy Alcoholic Drinks within a large establishment,
 maybe with a hotel, or holiday complex, may share its seating with
 other vendors.



Bars, cafés, restaurants and pubs can all be inside hotels and holiday
complexes. You might also very often find a bar in pubs and cafés, usually
1. in northern europe there are mainly night bars (I leave milk bars out
of this thread), i.e. mostly frequented at night, they will usually have a
professional bartender that mixes all kind of cocktails and longdrinks,
probably also have small concerts, sometimes are self service. The seating
will be bar stools at the counter and maybe lounge tables and sofas for
relaxing. Ususally no food (or just snacks). Sometimes the offer draught
beer, sometimes (probably more often) they don't.

2. in southern europe the bar concept is different and goes from breakfast,
lunch to pre-dinner. They serve all kind of drinks (also alcoholic), and
often offer a small selection of dishes for lunch. In Italy many of them
also sell cigarettes. The main use is still serving coffee. They change
their use during the day: from (northern europe) café in the morning, to
lunch-time-place at noon (kind of cheap pasta restaurant / fast-food like
sandwiches) to a place to get an aperitiv before dinner. This kind of bar is
found in Italy, Spain, southern France, Portugal, ...). They will (almost
all) have a professional coffee machine.


Still these places vary from country/culture to culture. IMHO we should
continue the way we are going. E.g. I would recommend to tag an Italian bar
with amenity=bar but expect something different if I navigate to a Bar in
Rome than I would if I went to a Bar in Berlin. Let the mapuser interpret
the available information. All Italian Bars call themselves bar. For an
Italian (casual) mapper it will be confusing to tag a bar with café (and
still café doesn't describe the place well, as an Italian Bar is not a
Viennese Café).

Cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread David Earl
I still think the most important criterion is what the owner of the 
establishment says it is, not on the subjective judgement of the surveyor.

David

On 20/01/2010 12:52, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
 2010/1/20 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org mailto:pchi...@bcs.org


 In my book its easy.

 Cafe - Place to buy and consume light snacks and NON-Alcoholic Drinks
 (Tea, Coffee, Coke etc) on site. Usually Unlicensed.



 in many countries you will find alcohol in cafés as well. In a café I
 would before all expect a professional coffee-machine and someone able
 to use it properly. Then I would expect a certain style (chairs and
 tables), opened usually from morning (or noon) to the evening, sometimes
 nighttime, almost never till very late. Snacks I would usually replace
 with cake and cookies.


 Pub - Place to buy and consume Alcoholic Drinks on site, (may also
 retail Non-Alcoholic Drinks, Snacks and sometimes Food)


 might also retail alcoholic drinks (in Germany and Italy, they do all,
 still a German Pub will look different (style) from what the Germans
 (and not only) call an Irish Pub, which is precisely corresponding to
 a Pub in the UK/Ireland. Most of the irish pubs offer a small
 selection of food and snacks, german pubs often don't offer food
 (unless they call themselfes restaurant). They (mostly, nearly all) do
 offer draught beer.


 Bar - Place to buy Alcoholic Drinks within a large establishment,
 maybe with a hotel, or holiday complex, may share its seating with
 other vendors.



 Bars, cafés, restaurants and pubs can all be inside hotels and holiday
 complexes. You might also very often find a bar in pubs and cafés, usually
 1. in northern europe there are mainly night bars (I leave milk bars
 out of this thread), i.e. mostly frequented at night, they will usually
 have a professional bartender that mixes all kind of cocktails and
 longdrinks, probably also have small concerts, sometimes are self
 service. The seating will be bar stools at the counter and maybe lounge
 tables and sofas for relaxing. Ususally no food (or just snacks).
 Sometimes the offer draught beer, sometimes (probably more often) they
 don't.

 2. in southern europe the bar concept is different and goes from
 breakfast, lunch to pre-dinner. They serve all kind of drinks (also
 alcoholic), and often offer a small selection of dishes for lunch. In
 Italy many of them also sell cigarettes. The main use is still serving
 coffee. They change their use during the day: from (northern europe)
 café in the morning, to lunch-time-place at noon (kind of cheap pasta
 restaurant / fast-food like sandwiches) to a place to get an aperitiv
 before dinner. This kind of bar is found in Italy, Spain, southern
 France, Portugal, ...). They will (almost all) have a professional
 coffee machine.


 Still these places vary from country/culture to culture. IMHO we should
 continue the way we are going. E.g. I would recommend to tag an Italian
 bar with amenity=bar but expect something different if I navigate to a
 Bar in Rome than I would if I went to a Bar in Berlin. Let the mapuser
 interpret the available information. All Italian Bars call themselves
 bar. For an Italian (casual) mapper it will be confusing to tag a bar
 with café (and still café doesn't describe the place well, as an
 Italian Bar is not a Viennese Café).

 Cheers,
 Martin



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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
 Still these places vary from country/culture to culture. IMHO we should
 continue the way we are going. E.g. I would recommend to tag an Italian bar
 with amenity=bar but expect something different if I navigate to a Bar in
 Rome than I would if I went to a Bar in Berlin. Let the mapuser interpret
 the available information. All Italian Bars call themselves bar. For an
 Italian (casual) mapper it will be confusing to tag a bar with café (and
 still café doesn't describe the place well, as an Italian Bar is not a
 Viennese Café).

Seconded. There will be always differences, and we can't cover it all
by tagging. Let's do minimum we can.

 Cheers,
 Martin

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/20 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com

 I still think the most important criterion is what the owner of the
 establishment says it is, not on the subjective judgement of the surveyor.



+1, might work well in English-speaking countries (and where it applies,
sometimes establishments have just a name zum goldenen Hirsch and no
category in it), all the rest still will have to be evaluated - but I agree:
if a bar in Italy is calling themself bar, I would tag it as amenity=bar.

btw.: there are also night-clubs and lounges, and there is some overlapping
in the definitions. Also for these the self-classification will mostly
help.

cheers,
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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:00 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:
 I still think the most important criterion is what the owner of the
 establishment says it is, not on the subjective judgement of the surveyor.

This sounds very good at first sight, but absolutely unworkable at
second. Do you really go into The Golden Rose and ask for the owner,
only to ask him what kind of business he runs? And things get even
more convoluted if you go to non-English speaking countries. Do you
ask him to answer you in English? Or do you take the one that sounds
closest to whatever he says it is? Or the one that the dictionary says
it corresponds to?

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Liz
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, David Earl wrote:
 I still think the most important criterion is what the owner of the 
 establishment says it is, not on the subjective judgement of the surveyor.
 
 David
 
In Au McDonalds call themselves Family Restaurants and I call them Fast 
Food.
The subjective work of the surveyor may be far more objective than the 
subjective work of the owner.

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/20 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org

 In my book its easy.

 Cafe  Usually Unlicensed.



Definitely I would not put licenses and other legal stuff into the
definition. They differ almost certainly in different countries, are of no
importance to the client and hard to research. They might even differ from
one city / state to another.

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:

 ... To meet both problems you can only do this:
 alcohol=yes
 coffee=no
 pastries=yes
 egg  chips=yes

I like this approach.

It makes much more sense than either of the other suggestions, i.e.:
1) inventing complex explicit definitions of what a cafe is,
internationally or
2) assuming complex (implicit) definitions of what a cafe is, and
having this differ from place to place

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2010/1/21 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com

 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  ... To meet both problems you can only do this:
  alcohol=yes
  coffee=no
  pastries=yes
  egg  chips=yes

 I like this approach.


yes, it's OK, just it doesn't tell you whether to expect a bar or a café ;-)

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
2010/1/19 Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com

 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com wrote:

  Maybe the English speaking world should start joining the rest of the
 world
  which have to learn definitions of each tag anyway. So OSM may have
 awkward
  tags for English speaking persons, but if we really have to try to
 resolve all
  tags that would look strange in some language (e.g. amenity=cafe is not
 what
  we call a café in Dutch) then the only option would be to use index
 numbers
  (amenity=135...) (*).

 Well, I would say it is part of what we call a café. The problem is
 more that Dutch uses the same word for what in OSM are three terms:
 bar, cafe and pub. And moreover, the same place often having the
 function of all three. To me, it's not the usage of the word cafe in
 OSM that is strange, but the distinction that is made between the
 various drinking establishments.


A café has a different meaning in different countries. Depending on where
you are originating from, you are likely to have a surprise, especially if
you are an English speaker and you are going to France.
Again, it is a case of sticking to the definition used on the wiki, even if
it doesn't sound logical based on the usage of the word in your language.

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Lennard
Emilie Laffray wrote:

 Again, it is a case of sticking to the definition used on the wiki, even 
 if it doesn't sound logical based on the usage of the word in your language.

I believe that was Ben's point, and this time it's the English-speaking 
part of the world that should adhere to that advice, for a change.

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Emilie Laffray
emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote:

 Well, I would say it is part of what we call a café. The problem is
 more that Dutch uses the same word for what in OSM are three terms:
 bar, cafe and pub. And moreover, the same place often having the
 function of all three. To me, it's not the usage of the word cafe in
 OSM that is strange, but the distinction that is made between the
 various drinking establishments.


 A café has a different meaning in different countries. Depending on where
 you are originating from, you are likely to have a surprise, especially if
 you are an English speaker and you are going to France.
 Again, it is a case of sticking to the definition used on the wiki, even if
 it doesn't sound logical based on the usage of the word in your language.

The problem is that the definition on the wiki makes a distinction
which is not made in the Netherlands. A 'café' is a place where drinks
can be bought for local consumption. I am to divide these into cafe,
pub and bar, based on whether they sell drinks and snacks or light
food, sell beverages in a relaxed atmosphere and usually also food or
sell beverages in a more party-like atmosphere not selling food. Well,
I find this distinction very artificial, because many will fall in all
three categories, depending on the time of day - a cafe by day, a pub
in the early evening, a bar in the later evening. Should I tag them
with all three? And if so, when seeing a cafe during the day, do I
need to come back in the evening to listen how loud the music is?

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
2010/1/19 Lennard l...@xs4all.nl

 Emilie Laffray wrote:

  Again, it is a case of sticking to the definition used on the wiki, even
  if it doesn't sound logical based on the usage of the word in your
 language.

 I believe that was Ben's point, and this time it's the English-speaking
 part of the world that should adhere to that advice, for a change.


Yup sorry for not seeing the point. But yes I agree with him. Sorry Ben

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:23 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote:

 In the case of Dutch cafe though, the word has been usurped for a
 purpose other than its original French meaning (which is pretty much
 universal I think - French cafes and English cafes are different in
 character, sure, but they are all restaurants with a limited menu and
 emphasis on soft and hot drinks, pastries and cold food, maybe not open
 in the evening), so the Dutch-cafe isn't actually claiming to be a cafe,
 it's claiming to be a special-Dutch-cafe not because the word cafe means
 something different in Dutch but because the word has been taken over
 for another use, and really deserves its own tag IMO.

Thanks, that does explain some for me. I guess it means I should retag
my cafes to pubs, because that's much more what they are like, and
my amenity=restaurant; cuisine=lunch to cafe...


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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/01/2010 15:34, Emilie Laffray wrote:


 2010/1/19 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com
 mailto:da...@frankieandshadow.com

 In the case of Dutch cafe though, the word has been usurped for a
 purpose other than its original French meaning (which is pretty much
 universal I think - French cafes and English cafes are different in
 character, sure, but they are all restaurants with a limited menu and
 emphasis on soft and hot drinks, pastries and cold food, maybe not open
 in the evening),


 I would be hard pressed to eat at a cafe in France. It usually doesn't
 serve any food, and they have an emphasis on serving alcohol. I guess
 they are not the same after all.

Really? While some English cafes might serve meals, if you can call them 
that, like Egg and Chips, the French cafes I've been into would 
typically serve coffee and pastries.

But put aside the distinction between soft drinks and alcohol, don't you 
think there is something different in character between a bar and a cafe 
in France, that causes the owner to *call* it one or the other (maybe 
even only for marketing reasons of atmosphere, cachet or desired 
clientèle than because of any fundamental difference in what it serves)?

David

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
2010/1/19 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com


 Really? While some English cafes might serve meals, if you can call them
 that, like Egg and Chips, the French cafes I've been into would
 typically serve coffee and pastries.


pastries yes but not a given. Food in general no.


 But put aside the distinction between soft drinks and alcohol, don't you
 think there is something different in character between a bar and a cafe
 in France, that causes the owner to *call* it one or the other (maybe
 even only for marketing reasons of atmosphere, cachet or desired
 clientèle than because of any fundamental difference in what it serves)?


It could be. But it shows that it is difficult to find a proper definition
for something like this. The meaning can be quite different.

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Emilie Laffray
emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote:

 2010/1/19 David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com

 In the case of Dutch cafe though, the word has been usurped for a
 purpose other than its original French meaning (which is pretty much
 universal I think - French cafes and English cafes are different in
 character, sure, but they are all restaurants with a limited menu and
 emphasis on soft and hot drinks, pastries and cold food, maybe not open
 in the evening),

 I would be hard pressed to eat at a cafe in France. It usually doesn't serve
 any food, and they have an emphasis on serving alcohol. I guess they are not
 the same after all.

Hmmm... Then that's much closer to what I have called cafe after
all. In fact, I have used emphasis on serving alcohol upto now as a
sort of working definition for bar. Maybe if the meaning of those
words is so different, I should not worry about it at all...


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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread John F. Eldredge
Also, at least in American usage, while a cafe will always sell beverages, it 
may or may not sell alcoholic beverages.

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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to 
think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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From: Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:06:30 
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related toolstagging@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Emilie Laffray
emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote:

 Well, I would say it is part of what we call a café. The problem is
 more that Dutch uses the same word for what in OSM are three terms:
 bar, cafe and pub. And moreover, the same place often having the
 function of all three. To me, it's not the usage of the word cafe in
 OSM that is strange, but the distinction that is made between the
 various drinking establishments.


 A café has a different meaning in different countries. Depending on where
 you are originating from, you are likely to have a surprise, especially if
 you are an English speaker and you are going to France.
 Again, it is a case of sticking to the definition used on the wiki, even if
 it doesn't sound logical based on the usage of the word in your language.

The problem is that the definition on the wiki makes a distinction
which is not made in the Netherlands. A 'café' is a place where drinks
can be bought for local consumption. I am to divide these into cafe,
pub and bar, based on whether they sell drinks and snacks or light
food, sell beverages in a relaxed atmosphere and usually also food or
sell beverages in a more party-like atmosphere not selling food. Well,
I find this distinction very artificial, because many will fall in all
three categories, depending on the time of day - a cafe by day, a pub
in the early evening, a bar in the later evening. Should I tag them
with all three? And if so, when seeing a cafe during the day, do I
need to come back in the evening to listen how loud the music is?

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Re: [Tagging] Dutch cafes (was: What's a power=station?)

2010-01-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/01/2010 17:42, John F. Eldredge wrote:
 beverages

interestingly, not a word you would often find used in British English. 
Generally drinks often means alcoholic beverages, though sometimes any 
depending on context, with soft drinks and hot drinks.

 pub

I'd have thought this is a largely British/Irish phenomenon, yes?
Most pubs elsewhere in the world are attempts at emulating or mocking 
British/Irish pubs, and nearly everywhere else has bars (and we do too, 
as well as pubs). The micro breweries found in parts of the US come 
pretty close to the British concept of pub, though no doubt some would 
want to make the distinction of beer being brewed on the premises (not 
unknown though in British pubs, though rare - I can think of two, one in 
Bury St Edmunds and one in Hampshire).

But the British pub concept has changed in recent years too as more and 
more become restaurants, where the drinks are subsidiary to food.

 I am to divide these into cafe,
 pub and bar, based on whether they sell drinks and snacks or light
 food...

Not really. I think it's what the operator calls it that counts, not 
your subjective judgement. The difficulty in France and Netherlands is 
that the word cafe seems to better correspond to the English usage for 
bar not cafe, but if there was agreement that this is indeed the case, 
we could solve it objectively by rote not by judgement.

David

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