On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 02:49, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to formally request comments on the proposal for > amenity=motorcycle_taxi: > > "A place where motorcycle taxis wait for passengers" > ... > While some have proposed using amenity=taxi plus additional tags for > motorcycle taxi stands, this is quite confusing for travelers who > generally expect a "taxi" to be 4-wheeled motorcar capable of carrying > 4 people and luggage. So a different tag is proposed to avoid > confusion and more precisely tag these features.
We could credit travellers with some knowledge of local norms, and use secondary tags to clarify when necessary. As a Canadian, a restaurant will always give free tap water if I am a dining there. When I travel in Europe, that's not necessarily the case. Should I suggest a tag amenity=restaurant_with_paid_water? Similarly I would not expect people to suggest a highway=secondary_but_extremely_bicycle_unfriendly tag for when they visit Canada and are used to western European norms of what highway=secondary looks like. Some of the differences can be tagged with secondary tags, like cycleway=no, maxspeed, width, lanes... Ideas of what constitutes a bus station, a train halt, a doctor's office, toilets, supermarkets, etc will similarly also differ worldwide. --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
