[Tagging] Mapping hotels on buildings or areas around buildings

Bryan Housel bryan at 7thposition.com
Fri Sep 29 15:11:57 UTC 2017


If you draw a “Hotel” in iD, you’ll see that it gets a `building=yes` tag added to it.  
(Users can change this if they like).

Again, this is exactly in agreement with what the osm wiki page for `tourism=hotel` says to do.




> On Sep 29, 2017, at 11:06 AM, LeTopographeFou <letopographefou at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This is how iD interprets the tag - as a building outline.  
> 
> I disagree, when you look for "Hotel" iD proposes both "Hotel" (in gray which means it is an area in the iD codes) and "Building Hotel" (in red and with a building picture which both means it is a building). Same for Hospitals. For me iD is already ready.
> 
> But one may propose a new translation to replace "Hotel" by "Hotel Grounds" to be consistent with how hospitals are proposed in iD.
> 
> By the way this is how I tag hotels now so +1 with the proposal.
> Yours,
> LeTopographeFou

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