<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good question!<br class="">As others have said - hotels have rooms that open indoors, motels have rooms that open outdoors. That’s the only difference.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">I did a bit of research on this last year for <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index</a> because we are using this project to capture the recommended tagging for all the brands of the world.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Check out the hotel/motel files here if you are curious!</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/tree/master/brands/tourism" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/tree/master/brands/tourism</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example:</div><div class="">Super 8 is almost always tagged as `tourism=motel`, and Travelodge is almost always tagged as `tourism=hotel`, even though both brands often exist in either kind of building.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think this is one of those tags where it really doesn’t matter much which one people use.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:47 PM, Peter Dobratz <<a href="mailto:peter@dobratz.us" class="">peter@dobratz.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What do you think?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,<br class="">Peter</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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