[Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 May 2010 12:08, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Alternatively you could have just said it was a subjective method of
> tagging that the next person to come along wouldn't be able to
> confirm.

Except that I don't think that it is.

> Although there is nothing stopping people downloading the
> list of locations from OSM and then creating their own mashups like
> www.osmfuel.org site which adds the ability to add prices for various
> fuel grades to each location.

Yep. It would be great if someone created a generic framework for this
kind of thing: storing information useful to OSM but that is not
really map data.

Steve