Amenity goes back to the term used by estate agents when describing a property as being close to the amenities. The level of which will vary, but in a village you expect the four Ps. Pub, Post Office, Primary School and Parish Church.
Living in a small town I would add doctors, cafes, restaurants, library, pharmacy and public toilets. A large town/city would add museums I suppose the amenities, which are considered the must be within walking distance will vary from person to person. My town has a launderette, but I have never used one in my life so would not personally put it in that amenity space. Others may disagree and see it as essential. Phil (trigpoint) On Wednesday, 18 September 2019, Simon Poole wrote: > > Am 18.09.2019 um 09:37 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > > > > sent from a phone > > > >> On 18. Sep 2019, at 09:22, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> My point was more that you should ignore the shop classification and > >> assume that that this is simply facility that in some form provides > >> access to clothes washing machines and space, because even a completely > >> normal laundromat facility is not a shop. In hindsight it should have > >> always been amenity=laundry (or similar) but that is a done deal. > > > > IMHO we shouldn’t ignore classifications. It would be easier to follow your > > argument if the tag was indeed amenity=laundry but as it isn’t, the tag > > should be used for what in OpenStreetMap is a shop (a business selling > > goods or services) > > Then nearly all amenities and leisure objects would be shops, consider > for example amentity=toilets Which, as you likely know :-), exist both > in free and paid versions. Providing access to a facility for use, > regardless if free or not, is not a shop, not even in OSM. > > Simon > > > Cheers Martin > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
