<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I've slept in some pretty nice places that had exterior room access. I wouldn't call that out as the only demarcating property. To my mind it's a combination of location, amenities and layout / architecture.<div><br></div><div>Interesting discussion!</div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Martijn van Exel</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 8, 2019, at 18:03, Tod Fitch <<a href="mailto:tod@fitchdesign.com">tod@fitchdesign.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">For me the difference is interior hallway to access room (hotel) vs exterior access to each room (motel).<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 8, 2019 4:47:33 PM PST, Peter Dobratz <<a href="mailto:peter@dobratz.us">peter@dobratz.us</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags?<div><br></div><div>The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story building where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of your room. A hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story where most guests cannot park directly outside their room.</div><div><br></div><div>There's the curious case of the two Motel 6 facilities directly across the road from each other. I had marked these as tourism=hotel based on the building architecture, but maybe all Motel 6's should be tourism=motel?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570">https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br>Peter</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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