2010/11/9 Tom Chance <[email protected]>: > Further to the culture proposal discussions... > > Can anyone tell me where the various theatre:genre tags were discussed, put > through the proposal process and voted on? I can only find evidence on the > wiki of the original proposal in 2006 for amenity=theatre (which I voted > for). > > It looks like they were added without any proper discussion in February this > year: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dtheatre&action=history > > The reason I ask is that the values pose two big problems. > > The first problem is that there is no way to be explicit "this theatre shows > both drama, cabaret, musical theatre and comedy". One could just not define > the genres to imply multiple values, but then with such a range of genres > available it could be mistaken for a concert hall or a puppet theatre. > > The second problem is the whole music category, which I think belongs in a > separate amenity/culture tag. In English, you would very rarely use the word > "theatre" in connection with a place where you appreciate musical > performances. They are concert halls, music venues, etc. If I download OSM > data and find a node tagged as amenity=theatre, I shouldn't need to delve > into all the other tags to discover that it isn't actually a theatre at all > - that it is in fact a local rock music venue or the country's most > prestigious concert hall. > > I would like to remove those genre tags and put them through a proper > proposal. Any thoughts?
I won't remove them all, as some are quite useful and I was happy to find them some time ago, when I tagged a special kind of theatre, but I agree that there is some problem, and that the music part is not well hosted there. I would go through them (possibly here on the list) and remove those that are not fitting well. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
