[Tagging] Cycle cafes

[Warin]

On 15/09/2015 10:12 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> The theme=bicycle tag looks good although I prefer the idea of 
> extending the cafe tag. There is at present a cafe:style tag with only 
> 5 uses in Taginfo. A better choice? I don't know.
>
> FYI: Taginfo also reports that theme is in wide use. Most of those 
> tags, however, are found in India and look to be the result of a mass 
> data import that was done badly. For example, amenity=fuel nodes are 
> tagged with theme=FACILITY and various types of clinics with 
> theme=HEALTH. People are doing their own thing again.

Of course they are. I like the New Zealand LINZ imports - they usually use a preface of LINZ: to the data they import that has no OSM equivalent.
If such a policy were adopted by the import people things would be easier to see.

I like the theme thing precisely because it can be applied to things other than just cafes.

>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 15/09/2015 6:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>
>         sent from a phone
>
>             Am 14.09.2015 um 21:41 schrieb Richard Fairhurst
>             <richard at systemeD.net>:
>
>             amenity=cafe, cafe=bicycle
>                 amenity=cafe, theme=bicycle
>
>             Any thoughts?
>
>
>         the theme=bicycle looks ok. Or style.
>           cafe=bicycle makes less sense to me. Someone might come up
>         with a cafe typology in the future, and bicycle will be more a
>         theme than a type for me.
>
>         cheers
>         Martin
>
>
>     Theme. Not only cafes but also restaurants, theatres ..these can
>     all have themes.
>
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