[Tagging] contact:* for review websites

[Dave Swarthout]

>do you mean that for example the tripadvisor website is
>often more up-to-date for a POI than the POI website itself ?

On second look, my reply is off-topic slightly as this is about the
contact:* tags and review websites. I would never tag a review site like
YELP or Tripadvisor.

But in the case of campgrounds or guest_houses having a link to a fuller
description can be very helpful: Here is an example of a caravan_site for
the Lake Louise State Recreation Area in Alaska:
website=http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/matsu/lklouisesra.htm

Mappers cannot easily supply the wealth of information contained in that
website simply through the use of tags. I added fee=yes, wheelchair=yes and
a few other tags but there is no way one can capture the wealth of detail
provided in the state-maintained website.

Sorry for the confusion.

Cheers,

Dave



On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Élisée Reclus <elisee.reclus at arcor.de>
wrote:

> Am 16.09.2017 um 15:25 schrieb marc marc:
> > and maybe it makes sense only for review system where you can retrieve
> > the note from an id. systems where you have to go to their own website
> > are unusable from an osm search (find a hotel close by with a 4 star
> review)
>
> All three services provide an API and it should be possible to make such
> queries.
>
> DuckDuckGo (a small search engine) for example shows ratings from Yelp
> and Tripadvisor (perhaps also from Foursquare, it only shows the ratings
> from one service for one place).
>
> They're all commercial services and not as open as as OSM. An
> "OpenReview" service similar to OSM/Wikipedia/Wikidata would be better,
> but that doesn't seem to exist or at least is not very popular.
>
> Reclus
>
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Dave Swarthout
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