On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ingo Lantschner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 21.05.2009 um 18:42 schrieb Adam Schreiber: > >>> I created a symbol and some rules for the key/value "tourism/ >>> apartment". >> >> I think you need to find a different key than apartment. It seems you >> want to tag an extended stay hotel from the description: >> ... >> , but in the US apartment is used to describe any rental unit in a >> building with other rental units whether they are flats, townhomes, or >> a mixture of the two. > That could start an endless discussion since there is practically no > term which is both generic (including holiday-flat, business- > apartment, serviced-apartment but excluding large-scale aparthotels > and all forms of B&B) without being ambiguous in a transcultural > context. So I think at least for the tagging we must just choose > something semi-optimal. May be that "apartment" was not the best > compromise. Any idea of what we can use instead if it?
I'd just call it a hotel. >>> A description for this node is here: >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags#References >> >> This is the incorrect link. > oops - here is the correct one: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags#Tourism > > > Cheers, ingo > -- > Ingo Lantschner > 1060 Vienna-Austria > Mobil +43-664-143 84 18 > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
