<html><head></head><body>I think that was a discussion on one of the mailing lists. And, where you order was also what I understand the (very fine) distinction to be. <br>
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Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 29, 2016 2:00:04 PM EDT, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />Harald Kliems <kliems@gmail.com> writes:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> That's not what the OSM tag means; it's more european. In OSM, "cafe"<br /> means (usually) that there is real food, but (always) that you order at<br /> a counter and then either take it yourself or have the staff bring it to<br /> you. However, a coffee shop is very probably a cafe under this<br /> definition. But so is a place that has real food cooked by a chef,<br /> except that you don't get waited on.<br /></blockquote></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Where do you
get the order-at-the-counter vs table service part from? I<br /> don't see that in the wiki, and the picture on the amenity=cafe page shows<br /> a waiter in an Austrian cafe, who most likely will take your order at the<br /> table. <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcafe">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcafe</a> Furthermore,<br /> there is a separate tag for self service<br /> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:self_service">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:self_service</a><br /></blockquote><br />I really do not remember clearly where I read this; it would have been<br />about 5 years ago.<br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Talk-us mailing list<br />Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><br
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