2010/1/20 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The Dutch cafe example is parallel to the motel / love_hotel example from >> Brazil and other countries. Sometimes a term has quite different uses in >> different cultures, and these are traps for all travellers. The question >> of >> whether the same tag has the same meaning wherever it is or whether >> meaning >> has to be gained from context, as we do now with traditional paper based >> maps, >> remains in discussion. > > The other question is whether or not OSM wants to be a map or a travel > guide. I'm liking more and more the suggestion to tag the cafe/motel with > building=yes and addr:*=*, and leave the rest to the travel guides and > yellow pages. Perhaps power plants are big and recognizable enough to be an > exception to this rule, but when you have to go inside an establishment and > read their menu before you can determine how to tag the place, are we really > mapping "what's on the ground"? >
We map everything we can. And POIs btw is one big reason for lot of people to map. Cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
