[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - rental

Ulf Lamping ulf.lamping at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 16 22:40:58 BST 2010


Am 16.09.2010 23:11, schrieb André Riedel:
> 2010/9/16 Ulf Lamping<ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>:
>> Well, Sixt will very rarely sell you a car, but a ski rental station very
>> often will also sell you ski if you like.
>>
>> I'm not saying that the rental tag is generally a bad idea (I've recently
>> added this to JOSM presets to indicate rental services for shop=motorcycle).
>>
>> What I'm saying is that there are places that will exclusively rent you
>> something, and other places that will rent you something but also sell it to
>> you, repair your own stuff and alike.
>
> You can use rental and shop at the same time.
>
>> So there are situations like amenity=car_rental where a standalone tag makes
>> perfect sense, while in other situations the rental is only a minor part of
>> the business. Putting this somehow all under a rental tag still seems a bad
>> idea to me.
>
> Probably we should use rental=yes or shop=yes if it is only a minor part.
>
> Selling cars and sometimes letting of cars:
> shop=car
> rental=yes
>
> selling only few ski equipments and rental is the main business:
> rental=ski
> shop=yes

Very certainly we should keep amenity=car_rental and not switch to 
rental=car just for the sake of "tag cleanliness" in completely 
unrelated scenarios - and BTW loosing lot's of clarity of the tag usage 
already in wide use.

Replacing current tag usage with something a lot more ambitiuous without 
a real gain is, well, ...

Regards, ULFL



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