Am 21.05.2009 23:37, Adam Schreiber: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ingo Lantschner > <listen2...@lantschner.name> 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. >
IT don't think it qualifies as a hotel at all because you can and have to do most of the "housework" yourself there. What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_rental Claudius _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
