[Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

[Greg Troxel]

Liz <edodd at billiau.net> writes:

> On Mon, 3 May 2010, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> cafe - food is made to order, and while fast, it's real food.
>> 
>> Basically my rules are:
>> 
> snip
>
> so how would you classify the shop which sells magnificent hamburgers,
> ordered at the counter, cooked to order, no table service?

That's probably over the line into restauarant.  But basically, I'd ask
if many/most people think it's a fun destination, vs a choice made only
when pressed.  (grownup people, not 6 year olds :-)

> but its also a newsagent and convenience store
> so it doesn't have any 'cafe ambience'

That's what I meant about the slippery slope to a full ontology.  The real bug in OSM's tagging scheme is that it is structured like

foo=bar
bar=baz

when really there should be muliple top level tags (you can do this) and
multiple branching points, like

a=b
b=c;d
c=e
d=f
g=h

but then this is hard to deal with, and converting for display or garmin
or anything else is hard, because most schemas want things binned into
one or the other.

> http://osm.org/go/uHaGmxZEc-
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