I agree that not all developing countries have internet cafés but I noticed several such establishments in Africa, specifically Uganda. There, the tag would be hugely beneficial.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:27 PM Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> wrote: > Replying in part to Dominic's comment: Internet cafes are fairly rare here > in Thailand because Internet is available in almost every public venue; > hotels, coffee shops, even bars. What we do see are gaming rooms, full of > internet-connected computers and teenagers. While Thailand is not quite a > first-world country, it is way ahead of the U.S. in terms of Internet > adoption, fiber connections to homes, etc. I have fast fiber service in my > rental home, TV with 40 cable-channels included, for about $20 USD per > month. In the U.S. I would need to pay 2 or 3 times that amount for low end > DSL and even now very few places offer fiber. > > The terms discussed in the proposal, cybercafe and other variants that > imply food and beverage, don't work well for those places because they are > for gaming. One would not go there because it's a cafe; any food or drink > is offered purely as a convenience. I've never tagged any of these because > I'm not quite sure how to tag them. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Dominic Coletti <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I feel like phone and fax are distinct to internet cafés, and should not >> be simply thrown out. Especially in developing countries where >> infrastructure is not as advanced. >> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:52 PM Warin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 24/02/2016 4:33 AM, Johnparis wrote: >>> >>> A place whose principal role is providing communication services >>> (internet, telephone and/or fax). >>> >>> >>> Telephone? >>> Fax? >>> Don't thing these are frequent? >>> >>> No mention of coffee/tea/cake? >>> >>> Nor a mention of additional services such as wifi, CD/DVD burning, >>> printing.... >>> >>> Think there is a need to indicate how to tag such things that will >>> probably occur for some places. >>> >>> Other than the fee .. probably the most important thing about these >>> places is the download/upload speed. Some way of tagging that would be >>> good. >>> >>> Sorry to pollute the original idea ... but these thing help identify the >>> 'internet_cafe' from the 'cafe with internet'. >>> >>> >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Internet_cafe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing >>> [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> -- >> >> *C/CMSgt Dominic Coletti, CAP* >> Whiskey Flight Sergeant, Raleigh-Wake Composite Squadron >> (H) 919-463-9554 >> U.S. Air Force Auxiliary >> GoCivilAirPatrol.com <http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Civil-Air-Patrol/107647995924164> >> <http://instagram.com/civil__air__patrol> >> <https://twitter.com/civilairpatrol> >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/civilairpatrol/sets/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- *C/CMSgt Dominic Coletti, CAP* Whiskey Flight Sergeant, Raleigh-Wake Composite Squadron (H) 919-463-9554 U.S. Air Force Auxiliary GoCivilAirPatrol.com <http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Civil-Air-Patrol/107647995924164> <http://instagram.com/civil__air__patrol> <https://twitter.com/civilairpatrol> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/civilairpatrol/sets/>
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