[OSM-newbies] Public dinner room?

[John Sturdy]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to tag a public dinner room?

No-one's yet suggested a tagging for this, so I'll try starting one...

It should probably be under "amenity=" (although picnic sites are done
as "tourism=picnic_site", but this one doesn't sound like it's
specifically a tourist facility).

We could either use "amenity=dining_room", or "amenity=dining_area"
with "location=indoor" (or "location=covered" if there's a roof but no
walls); the latter would be more flexible, also allowing for other
locations such as outdoor (when it's a dining area but not a touristic
picnic site).

The number of people the room can accomodate (number of seats,
usually) would probably be "capacity="

The organization providing the facility would probably be done with
the "operator" key.

"location", "capacity", and "operator" are well-established key names.

Other existing tags that may be relevant include "opening_hours",
"access", and "wheelchair" (the last of those being used to indicate
whether access to the area is step-free or not).

__John