Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-27 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
The typical planetarium in the USA is attached to a museum, and most offer separately ticketed shows (stars, movies, talks). A lens-based star projectors once distinguished a planetarium. No more. Now these are basically digital movie theaters with a curved screen. As such they are most akin to a

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-26 Thread Johannes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I count your votings on tagging-mailinglist: leisure 2x tourism 3x amenity 4x Finally I vote also for amenity=planetarium. I'm going to create/modify the wiki pages in that way. Regards Johannes On 25.02.2014 18:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Fe

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > clearly not everyone has been there to see the busloads > of elementary school kids who are actually the main visitors > to planetariums. > Oh, I have. Granted, I only have the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to go

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Andre Hinrichs
Am 25.02.2014 13:56, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > > 2014-02-25 12:02 GMT+01:00 Pieren >: > > Unfortunatelly, today in OSM, a > museum is more considered as a touristic attraction than a place for > education and works of art preservation. > > > > > +1 (also

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-02-25 16:00, Richard Welty wrote : > On 2/25/14 9:08 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Educational as they might be, it seems that the primary use of planetariums >> from what I've seen is to get high and watch laser light shows. I vote >> leisure=planetarium. > clearly not everyone has been ther

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/25/14 9:08 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Educational as they might be, it seems that the primary use of planetariums > from what I've seen is to get high and watch laser light shows. I vote > leisure=planetarium. > > clearly not everyone has been there to see the busloads of elementary school kid

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Educational as they might be, it seems that the primary use of planetariums from what I've seen is to get high and watch laser light shows. I vote leisure=planetarium. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Dan S wrote: > Hi all, > > Well amenity=* has been something of a default choice in the past,

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread John Packer
Maybe my last email was unclear. I vote on tourism=planetarium 2014-02-25 10:02 GMT-03:00 John Packer : > I would argue the main public of planetariuns are tourists. > > > 2014-02-25 9:56 GMT-03:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > >> >> 2014-02-25 12:02 GMT+01:00 Pieren : >> >> Unfortunatelly, today in

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread John Packer
I would argue the main public of planetariuns are tourists. 2014-02-25 9:56 GMT-03:00 Martin Koppenhoefer : > > 2014-02-25 12:02 GMT+01:00 Pieren : > > Unfortunatelly, today in OSM, a >> museum is more considered as a touristic attraction than a place for >> education and works of art preservat

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-02-25 12:02 GMT+01:00 Pieren : > Unfortunatelly, today in OSM, a > museum is more considered as a touristic attraction than a place for > education and works of art preservation. > +1 (also to the rest). I favor amenity=planetarium cheers, Martin __

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread André Pirard
On 2014-02-25 12:02, Pieren wrote : On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Dan S wrote: I'd suggest tourism=planetarium might be the best choice; but all of the suggestions are fine really! Like museum, it is something between science/museum/edu

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Dan S wrote: > I'd suggest tourism=planetarium might be the best choice; but all of > the suggestions are fine really! Like museum, it is something between science/museum/educational and cinema/theatre/entertainment. In the planetarium I know, the main public is

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-25 Thread Dan S
Hi all, Well amenity=* has been something of a default choice in the past, so the definition is quite stretched from "community facilities" as the wiki puts it. There are some well-established tags that might be better as leisure=* or tourism=* if we were starting from scratch. So I'd suggest tour

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-24 Thread Dave Swarthout
I think amenity=planetarium is perfectly reasonable. A planetarium is a place that resembles a theater but the "show" involves models of the planets and/or the stars & universe. If OSM can have an amenity=brothel tag, we can certainly have an amenity tag for planetaria, which are in my opinion "som

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/24/14 5:17 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > > > I would not call it an amenity, which is (to me, native UK English > speaker) something for the benefit/enjoyment of society as a whole (or > at least a large part of it). These days a planetarium is probably for > enjoyment/entertainment (suggesting l

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-24 Thread John Packer
Perhaps instead of amenity=*, it should be added to tourism=*. It seems that's where the discussion is going to. 2014-02-24 19:23 GMT-03:00 Richard Welty : > On 2/24/14 5:17 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > > > > > > I would not call it an amenity, which is (to me, native UK English > > speaker) somet

Re: [Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-24 Thread Colin Smale
I would not call it an amenity, which is (to me, native UK English speaker) something for the benefit/enjoyment of society as a whole (or at least a large part of it). These days a planetarium is probably for enjoyment/entertainment (suggesting leisure=planetarium). Colin On 2014-02-24 22:53

[Tagging] Fwd: tag for planetarium

2014-02-24 Thread Johannes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: tag for planetarium Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:22:16 +0100 From: Johannes To: tagging@openstreetmap.org Hello, i was looking for suitable tag, that describes a planetarium. But until now nothing, there