Good question! As others have said - hotels have rooms that open indoors, motels have rooms that open outdoors. That’s the only difference.
I did a bit of research on this last year for https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index <https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index> because we are using this project to capture the recommended tagging for all the brands of the world. Check out the hotel/motel files here if you are curious! https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/tree/master/brands/tourism <https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/tree/master/brands/tourism> For example: Super 8 is almost always tagged as `tourism=motel`, and Travelodge is almost always tagged as `tourism=hotel`, even though both brands often exist in either kind of building. I think this is one of those tags where it really doesn’t matter much which one people use. Bryan > On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:47 PM, Peter Dobratz <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags? > > The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story building > where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of your room. A > hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story where most guests > cannot park directly outside their room. > > There's the curious case of the two Motel 6 facilities directly across the > road from each other. I had marked these as tourism=hotel based on the > building architecture, but maybe all Motel 6's should be tourism=motel? > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570> > > What do you think? > > Thanks, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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