I'd say most pubs (public houses) in Ireland would have a bar and a lounge(both rooms)
But even still the lounge would have a bar(a counter)where you ordered drinks Or I was told the bar was the brass bar often placed on the customer side of the counter The 2 harbour bars I drink in have a lounge also. It's very fluid and ambiguous Colm On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, 13:51 Alan Grant, <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me start by introducing myself as I have not posted on talk-ie before. > I am Irish but live abroad and generally follow the Spanish (talk-es) > mailing list. > > There is a rather intense debate taking place at the moment on talk-es (31 > posts and still going) about whether a typical Spanish neighbourhood bar > should be tagged as amenity=bar, pub, or cafe. Some participants seem to > assume that the bar-pub distinction is clearly defined in English (and > specifically in the English OSM wiki) and that the issue is how to map that > distinction to Spain. > > I am posting here because I wondered about whether Irish mappers do in fact > think this distinction is well-defined and useful. It seems to me that in > Ireland at least we often use "pub" and "bar" almost interchangeably - > hence pub names such as "The Harbour Bar". Looking at the wiki some of the > criteria seem rather vague or of doubtful relevance - should it matter to > the definition of an amenity if the building that houses it happens to be > modern or purpose-built? What about the suggestion that food is normally > available in pubs - I seem to remember that when I was young many pubs > served little more in the way of food than packets of crisps, does that > mean they were then bars but have become pubs as they diversified into > serving food to the lunchtime crowd? > > From taginfo the pub tag vastly outnumbers the bar tag in Ireland. Looking > at places tagged as bar, many of them do not seem much different to their > neighbours tagged as pubs as far as I can see. > > I suppose I am really asking out of curiosity rather than with any definite > aim, but any thoughts would be welcome. > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
