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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19-Feb-17 03:11 AM, Eugene Alvin
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<div class="gmail_extra">I'm not so sure that tagging minutiae
like this is appropriate for OSM, which is really a
geo-database and not a business/services directory. This is
like tagging Italian restaurants with something like the
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OSM could be restricted to just roads. Why have restaurants at all
in OSM? But fortunately the majority can see that some section of
users want restaurants and they want to be able to distinguish
between different cuisines. <br>
Same thing for opening_hours .. too much detail for OSM? I think
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<div class="gmail_extra">I think it is enough just to indicate
if a laundromat is self-service, coin-operated, full-service,
etc. and not bothering to classify the available washing
machines. I know tagging information like these is useful but
should these really be included in OSM? Maybe we ought to have
an OpenBusinessDirectory sister project or something: <a
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Fuel stations are now tagged with the type of fuel available there.
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I see no reason to limit what one feature can be tagged with if
someone wants to tag them ...after all OSM is free tagging with what
ever a mapper wants to place on a feature. <br>
By discussing that tagging here you have an opportunity to format
that tagging into something that might just make sense, has some
structure and conforms to the other structures used in OSM tagging.
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If someone does not want the added detail .. then there is no
compulsion for them to add nor use that data. <br>
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