[Tagging] Mapping hotels on buildings or areas around buildings

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 29. Sep 2017, at 17:11, Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.


there are hotels and hotels. Some have been built as hotels, others are in historic buildings, some are just a floor or two in a building that has also other occupants like residents or offices.

The building tag should reflect the building typology, or yes if you don’t bother for the details.

cheers,
Martin