I would recommend making a clear distinction between the premises and the activity. Lotteries are rarely carried out in shops, but the tickets are sold in all manner of establishments with a different primary purpose. And whether you can ever call gambling an amenity (for the public good) is open to discussion as far as I am concerned. Colin
Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: >Dear all, > >There are currently various tags for gambling-related shops and >amenities >in use, including amenity=casino, shop=bookmaker, shop=betting, >shop=lottery, and shop=gambling. See here for an overview of usage >statistics: >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/gambling >. > >As shops and amenities for gambling are already widely used, we should >aim >to stay as close to the current way of tagging as possible when writing >a >proposal. However, the usage statistics to which I linked show some >issues >with the current way of tagging, which would be good to resolve. These >issues include the following. > >- The current tagging contains some ambiguous tags. For example, >amenity=gambling is used for both bookmakers and casinos. >- Some real-world objects are tagged in (many) different ways. For >example, >bookmakers are tagged as shop=bookmaker, shop=betting, and (less >frequently) amenity=gambling. Lotteries are tagged in many different >ways >as well. > >Data consumers (and end-users as a consequence) would benefit if these >issues were resolved. Fixing current tagging will probably be >difficult, >but more guidance in the form of well-documented tags might help >prevent >these issues at least for future tagging. > >In order to create clearer documentation for future mappers and resolve >ambiguities, I am interested in the opinion of the community on the >following questions. > >1. Should we map all gambling-related places in a single way, for >example >as amenity=gambling and then specify with gambling=*-tags, or should we >keep different tags for different kind of gambling places? > >2. If we want to use different tags for different kind of gambling >places, >which types of gambling places should we distinguish? For example: >- Should we distinguish bookmakers and lotteries? Note that some places >combine sports betting with traditional lotteries. >- Should we distinguish casinos (with croupiers) and 'playing halls' >(or >whatever they are called) without croupiers? > >With kind regards, >Matthijs Melissen > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Tagging mailing list >Tagging@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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