[Tagging] What tags to use on a scenic route?

Peter Wendorff wendorff at uni-paderborn.de
Wed Oct 27 07:53:25 BST 2010


Am 27.10.2010 01:13, schrieb Dave F.:
> On 26/10/2010 21:03, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>>
>> The WTO definition is better for mapping purposes. Otherwise I have to
>> decide if a hotel is used by 'business' guests or 'holiday' guests.
>> These uses of a hotel do overlap.
>
> Err.. Yes, you're correct the use of a hotel does overlap.
>
> But we were discussing Tourism, which, in most definitions (as I 
> noted) doesn't include business.
>
> To go back to your confusion over Hotel;
>
> building=hotel
> tourism=yes
> business=yes.
Again: you are mixing up typology and function in the building-tag here. 
Therefore I don't agree.

why not ignore building for this purpose and simply use tourism=hotel, 
business=hotel?

Of course this is redundant - but who cares?
>
> or something along those lines.
>
> See? you don't have to decide, you just added multiple sub tags to 
> clarify & make more accurate.
+1

regards
Peter



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