Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

The only clear definition that has come across this list is whether the rooms open to the outdoors or to a hallway. All of the others are way too subjective to be useful to anyone trying to decide how to tag it. -- Brian > ___ > Talk-us mailing list >

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

>> As I believe the etymology of the word "motel" (circa 1920s) is a contraction >> of "motor hotel," I believe it is fair to say that a motel is a hotel which >> caters to motorists. That is, patrons who arrive in an automobile and wish >> for it to be immediately accessible, as in parked

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

Good question! As others have said - hotels have rooms that open indoors, motels have rooms that open outdoors. That’s the only difference. I did a bit of research on this last year for https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index because

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

As I believe the etymology of the word "motel" (circa 1920s) is a contraction of "motor hotel," I believe it is fair to say that a motel is a hotel which caters to motorists. That is, patrons who arrive in an automobile and wish for it to be immediately accessible, as in parked directly

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

This was discussed at the main Tagging mailing list a couple of months ago: Start of thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-December/041597.html Continuation in January: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-January/041720.html The wiki page for Motel was

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

I've slept in some pretty nice places that had exterior room access. I wouldn't call that out as the only demarcating property. To my mind it's a combination of location, amenities and layout / architecture. Interesting discussion! Martijn van Exel > On Mar 8, 2019, at 18:03, Tod Fitch

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

For me the difference is interior hallway to access room (hotel) vs exterior access to each room (motel). On March 8, 2019 4:47:33 PM PST, Peter Dobratz wrote: >How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel >tags? > >The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

I think your description of motels as parking directly outside rooms is good, but I've seen plenty of motels that had multiple stories. Wikipedia's page on motels is good and has this definition: "a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

I thought the defining architectural difference was whether access to the room was via interior hallway (hotel) or exterior walkway (motel). On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 19:51 Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 3/8/19 18:47, Peter Dobratz wrote: > > How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and

Re: [Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

On 3/8/19 18:47, Peter Dobratz wrote: > How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags? > > The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story > building where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of > your room. A hotel would be other

[Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags? The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story building where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of your room. A hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story where most