2012/5/10 Philip Barnes <[email protected]>: > Is providing detailed information on pubs possibly over-stretching us? > Things change rapidly, beers in pubs can change daily and sometime > quicker than that, we would need to maintain this data and I think it > would rapidly become stale.
in many regions in Germany it is hardly changing: many pubs change more often name or operator than beer brand. > I feel that ather like was suggested for the similar hotel thread, there > are sites that specialise in this sort of detail. there is surely a limit, but being able to know if a pub/restaurant/bar has draught beer or not is an important information IMHO. There are people recording reference numbers of power poles, how many people are interested in this? > Maybe not big national > sites, but local ones. yes, there is lots of them. How many would you have to link to osm in order to cover half of the pubs in OSM? > Would it not be better to include a link in the tags to such > information? a link for each and all of them? As soon as this would be accepted and practise, we will have other complaining about the links. Do you have an idea how many portals there is about hotels in the world? Besides that I haven't yet found one which allows you to download their database and do analysis with it. > http://www.whatpub.org/Guide/005000/Pub005076.htm > http://www.whatpub.org/Guide/005000/Pub005074.htm > http://www.whatpub.org/Guide/004000/Pub004535.htm e.g. this one. Couldn't find their database for download, couldn't find a license, besides "(c)" Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
