Educational as they might be, it seems that the primary use of planetariums from what I've seen is to get high and watch laser light shows. I vote leisure=planetarium.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Dan S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Well amenity=* has been something of a default choice in the past, so > the definition is quite stretched from "community facilities" as the > wiki puts it. There are some well-established tags that might be > better as leisure=* or tourism=* if we were starting from scratch. So > I'd suggest tourism=planetarium might be the best choice; but all of > the suggestions are fine really! > > Dan > > > 2014-02-25 0:28 GMT+00:00 Dave Swarthout <[email protected]>: > > I think amenity=planetarium is perfectly reasonable. A planetarium is a > > place that resembles a theater but the "show" involves models of the > planets > > and/or the stars & universe. If OSM can have an amenity=brothel tag, we > can > > certainly have an amenity tag for planetaria, which are in my opinion > > "something for the benefit/enjoyment of society as a whole" whereas it is > > arguable whether brothels fit into that category. ;-) > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:27 AM, John Packer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Perhaps instead of amenity=*, it should be added to tourism=*. > >> > >> It seems that's where the discussion is going to. > >> > >> > >> 2014-02-24 19:23 GMT-03:00 Richard Welty <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> On 2/24/14 5:17 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > I would not call it an amenity, which is (to me, native UK English > >>> > speaker) something for the benefit/enjoyment of society as a whole > (or > >>> > at least a large part of it). These days a planetarium is probably > for > >>> > enjoyment/entertainment (suggesting leisure=planetarium). > >>> > >>> on the other hand, in my experience Planetariums are usually > >>> attached to museums of one kind or another, whether science > >>> museums or children's museums. > >>> > >>> richard > >>> -- > >>> [email protected] > >>> Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > >>> OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > >>> Java - Web Applications - Search > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Tagging mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Tagging mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Dave Swarthout > > Homer, Alaska > > Chiang Mai, Thailand > > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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