2012/6/18 Pieren <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> are self service restaurants tagged as restaurants? How is the >> distinction made? > > I don't see a difference between "amenity=canteen" and > "amenity=restaurant"+"access=private". Or we keep the word > "restaurant" for public restaurants ?
I think a canteen is closer to a cafeteria than to a restaurant, unless there are waiters. Still I believe the easiest and less ambiguous tagging would be a dedicated tag instead of a subtag to one of the established tags (for different things). A canteen is a distinct feature with a dedicated word in many languages because it is not a kind of restaurant. There are other differences as well: usually you pay less because the scope of the place is not to earn money but to make your employees/students eat. Cheers, Martin Btw: also in French it seems as if there are more differences than just the access: "La cantine se différencie du restaurant par le fait que ses repas sont gratuits ou bon marché, tout ou partie du coutN 1 étant pris en charge par la collectivité ou l'employeur." http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantine _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
