[OSM-newbies] Public dinner room?

[James Ewen]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
> Al 15/04/12 07:47, En/na Aspen Swartz ha escrit:
>
>> In my part of the world we call that a "picnic shelter".
>
> Even if the "picnic shelter" is in a room of a building (that's my case)?

I doubt that you will find a global solution. There are many distinct
items that are unique to specific areas of the world. In those areas,
tags to describe those items need to be created.

Here in Canada we have roads that are built each winter over the
frozen muskeg and lakes. These ice roads only exist for a few months
each year while the temperatures are low enough to support heavy
traffic. These roads are rebuilt each year in the approximate same
place, and are extremely important routes used to haul heavy
commodities to the northern communities served by them. Without these
roads many communities would not be able to get a lot of their
supplies.

Warmer temperate and equatorial countries would never use these tags,
but they exist to describe types of roads we have here. Pick a tag,
and stick with it. If you use it enough and others pick up on it,
someone might start making maps that show these public dining rooms.
These are not picnic_shelters, nor would I consider a picnic_shelter a
public_dining_room... there's enough distinction to require unique
tags.

But then again, this is just my humble opinion.

-- 
James
VE6SRV