[Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> 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

IMHO, the real issue is that OSM is a map, and rating food is not map
like. At its tidiest OSM would merely store the address corresponding
to a geographical location, and all issues of who the current tenant
of that location is, what kind of food or filth they serve would be
"somebody else's problem".

Of course, that would leave OSM much the poorer for a long time. But
really I don't think there will be any brilliant solution within the
current framework. Roads, yes. Places you can look for food, yes.
Detailed information about the culinary offerings of different
establishments, no.

Steve