[OSM-newbies] Public dinner room?

[Aspen Swartz]

I agree with James.  In my part of the world, we simply don't have
exactly the same type of thing as this "public dinner room".  So why
not tag it in the language of the area it's in, with the words that
locals use to describe it?

Aspen

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> newbies mailing list
> newbies at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies