On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Claudius <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 21.05.2009 23:37, Adam Schreiber: >> 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. >> > > 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
I'm not sure that fits either. I think he's desscribing someplace like: http://www.extendedstayamerica.com/ Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
