On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ambiguous. Paris has a far different idea about business hours than New >> York, which has a different idea than Salem, and so on. Even within the >> same geopolitical region, for example, "business hours" are typically >> 8AM-5PM M-Sa in Portland, but are usually 10AM-noon,1PM-4PM in Salem. > > Obviously it's always better to code the information precisely and with > maximum detail, if that information is available and the coder can be > bothered. Failing that, "business_hours" seems reasonable, and it isn't > really a problem if the interpretation of that varies from place to place.
opening_hours=business hours is arguably more useful in some situations. For example, "business hours" might exclude some public holidays. In this case, would you really prefer to enter all public holiday information in the opening_hours=* value? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
