I have adapted the proposal to reflect the results of this discussion. Met vriendelijke groet/with kind regards,
*Jan van Bekkum* www.DeEinderVoorbij.nl On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:53 AM, johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2015, at 2:26 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > a restaurant doesn't "sell food" as its main activity, it provides a > service (cooking and table service, offering nice dishes and ambience, > etc.). > > > > Martin - you always have a very keen eye for exactly the right word usage. > You are right. > > it sells *cooked* food to consume, so it sells meals - dishes. and in the > price of the food is an implicit agreement that you are allowed to be on > the premises to consume it, for the most part. > > I rarely go to a restaurant for admiring it’s atmosphere - if it din’t > sell meals, I wouldn’t be there. > > A butcher or a market’s primary purpose sells raw ingredients - “food” - > in order to make meals. > > But that is still a shop that sells meals. but the change of this word has > no bearing on the argument I laid out. > > The toilets, the parking, smoking area, the benches, the baby changing > station - maybe even the “bar” in the restaurant are amenities of the the > restaurant - > > rather than looking at the restaurant as an amenity of the neighborhood. > > Amenities are part of a location - and the location is a shop. OSM seems > to have shifted it’s tagging focus from city level to street and now to > building level, as more and more data types are discussed. > > look at the tags discussed here - water taps being the most contentious > for the past month or so - it is mapping these small “location” amenities. > > the tagging structure should reflect that change of focus - and > classifying some shops as shops and some as amenities is quite confusing > and goes against the more narrow focus. > > > Javbw > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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