I’m thinking some of the “passive resistance” could be avoided if we expanded/replaced “lounge” with “waiting_room/area”, and shifted tagging to PT (makes sense for the original proposal). I’d argue general tourists can buy into some lounges as well.
Anton > 10 июня 2018 г., в 19:15, Johnparis <[email protected]> написал(а): > > this is precisely why I raised the question of whether a lounge is an > amenity. it's not open to the general tourist population, for example, like a > bank or a pharmacy. > > > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Yves <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> Given the definition of an airport lounge given earlier (a waiting room >>> reserved for business or first class, operated by airlines company... ), I >>> think the concept is fairly concise. >> >> Yes, the concept is concise. As is my response: why bother? >> >>> Now expanding this to hotels and dentists is not possible and maybe there >>> is no need to? >>> Stations are more the issue here if there is something there close to the >>> airport lounges. >> >> In my youth, almost all railway stations had waiting rooms and none had >> lounges (as you intend the term). >> Decades ago many stations switched to unmanned operation and the waiting >> rooms were closed (because of >> vandalism in unattended stations) and still none had lounges. These days, a >> handful of stations have lounges >> but are outnumbered by stations with waiting rooms and/or bars/snack >> bars/cafes. >> >> I doubt you'll find an airport that doesn't have a waiting room/area >> somewhere. Probably also a bar or cafe. >> Lounges are the expensive places catering to the rich customer >> (executive-class ticket or money to burn on >> food/drink) rather than the ordinary traveller needing a place to sit. >> >> Waiting rooms are present in hospitals, dentists' and doctors' surgeries. >> Also in job centres, council offices >> and other places. >> >> I can see tagging waiting rooms as being useful to the majority of data >> consumers who use those types of >> organizations, even though those are a minority of data consumers. This >> tagging seems to cater to a >> minority of a minority. If that's what you truly intend (it appears that it >> is) then I won't oppose it but nor will >> I support it. It's entirely possible I'd need to know if a station (or even >> airport) has a waiting room. I don't >> see me ever needing to know if it has a lounge (and for an airport it would >> be a selling feature of the >> business-class ticket, so I'd know anyway). >> >> So why bother? >> >> -- >> Paul >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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