I'd agree with Mike, banqueting_hall is a tad too specific, but I did like the other option of function_hall suggested by someone earlier in the thread. Event_hall is an equivalent which works fine for me too.
Note that there is a cross-over to things tagged village_hall or similar, and many amenity=community_centre will also cope with events, but presumably other things as well. There was also a short discussion on IRC about places offering wedding facilities (usually pubs, restaurants or hotels with separate or additional facilities). I certainly noticed in Poland that many hotels & restaurants businesses revolve around the traditional 2-3 day wedding party. Jerry On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Michael Collinson <[email protected]>wrote: > On 23/08/2013 12:07, OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: > >> On 22 August 2013 10:03, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> website=xxx - which will give the details (if we could access them from >>> the >>> map) >>> >> I'm not sure if I can quote the website in this case as Google may >> have a database copyright on it. I generally only quote websites if >> they are advertised on the geographic site itself. In this case, the >> building was strangely anonymous, other than the name and the car >> parking arrangements. >> >> >> The bottom line is "do we add the fine detail?" ... places like Lumley >>> are a >>> >> My feeling is that the query/rendering tools can throw away excess >> detail, but cannot generate detail that is not there. I think the >> limit has to be set by when a reasonably intelligent person cannot >> distinguish between two categories (which is not to say that in the >> grey world in which we live, many if not most things will fall close >> to borderlines). >> > Agreed. Our eating place is a grey blurry categorisation is a good example > that works well and internationally: fast_food > cafe > restaurant with > the fine detail, and what that means in different part of the world, left > to specific "precise detail" tags, such cuisine. Waterways is probably > another one. Great for initial identification and general classification, > but if you want to use it a canoeist or angler, more arcane/precise info is > needed. > > [whips Mr. Pedantic hat on, for I am in that mood today.] > > Thinking on those lines, and applying it to the non-GB countries that I > map in, I suggest that : > > 1) the main topic of conversation is an "Event hall", as suggested: A > (most likely single) building with its dominant function being a (most > likely single) large space with flat area that can host meals, dances, > presentations, entertainment and other ad hoc events. May have ancilliary > facilities such as side rooms, toilets, kitchen, stage. May be publicly or > privately run. > > 2) An "Event centre" or "Conference centre" being typically a larger > enterprise with a group of facilities including one or more of: large event > spaces, meeting rooms, dining facilities, accommodation. May also have > small sport/relaxation facilities, park land. Accommodation is NOT usually > offered for ordinary visitors or drive by. [Lots of these in Sweden, hence > my interest.] > > 3) A "hotel", as we already use it, conversely may have all the features > of an event centre but a major function is to provide accommodation to > ordinary and drive-by visitors. > > Mike > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gb<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb> >
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