[Tagging] Public wifi (Fon)

[Warin]

On 29-Sep-17 11:03 AM, André Pirard wrote:
> On 2017-09-29 02:22, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Noticed in the discussion of the devices tag, mention of devices 
>> attached to telephone booths, which got me thinking.
>>
>> Here in Australia, Telstra provides public wifi access via it's 
>> Telstra Air network (https://www.telstra.com.au/telstra-air), which 
>> is also linked to the international Fon network 
>> (https://network.fon.com/).
>>
>> A lot / most of Telstra's wifi spots are mounted on public telephone 
>> boxes (the pink bit's shown on the above link :-)) - I don't know 
>> about Fon?
> Fon works as a public service on consenting private WiFi routers 
> <https://maps.fon.com>.
> The router software completely isolates the private and public parts 
> of the router
> Access to any working Fon router is granted to anyone who consents to 
> open the service on his own router or for a price. Consenting people 
> are charged on their home bill the traffic they use elsewhere.
> Usually, router users are unaware of Fon and are consenting by default.
> It would, of course, be a totally useless chore to update Fon comes 
> and goes on OSM and to duplicate the Fon map.
>
> Cheers
>
> André.
>
>
>> So, do we have a tag for public wifi / internet spots?
>>
>> I can't see anything for one, but I guess it would come under 
>> amenity=*, same as amenity=telephone for public phones?
>>
Free internet tagged as

internet_access=wlan
fee=yes/no (yes = free)
access=public

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:internet_access%3Dwlan

As per the above OSMwiki don't use amenity=*.


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