[Tagging] How to tag a building constructed for a gastronomic purposes?

Tobias Zwick osm at westnordost.de
Tue Sep 25 07:34:27 UTC 2018


> the building=* tag helps define the rough purpose fo the building - but not the exact purpose. The pin or other tags on the building do that. And that building looks like it wants to sell food to tourists.  ^_^

Yes, true. Though I rather had something like building=gastronomic in mind, not building=restaurant.

Am 25. September 2018 02:54:02 MESZ schrieb John Willis <johnw at mac.com>:
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>> On Sep 25, 2018, at 2:15 AM, Tobias Zwick <osm at westnordost.de> wrote:
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>> I find it kind of unfitting to tag those as building=retail because
>the
>> kind of building is almost like a residential one (or like a hotel).
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>the buildings look like a hotel (or was perhaps a hotel in the past) -
>but if it is just a restaurant now, then it is building=retail. 
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>If it is a place where you can rent a private room to sleep, it is a
>building=hotel with a commercial landuse, a pin for the hotel, and
>another pin for the restaurant  (the lobby restaurant in hotels is
>usually a separate mappable place, as it’s purpose, operating hours,
>and access to the general public is different than the hotel itself. 
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>there are all kinds of amenities - pubs, restaurants, bed&breakfasts,
>Ryokans, fast food shops, etc,  But if they take up the entire
>building, almost all of them would fall into building=retail or
>building=hotel.  you are tagging the purpose of the building - not it’s
>design, except in the rarest of cases. 
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>the building=* tag helps define the rough purpose fo the building - but
>not the exact purpose. The pin or other tags on the building do that.
>And that building looks like it wants to sell food to tourists.  ^_^
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>I understand the “rest stop” nature of the building - there are similar
>buildings in Japan, some larger complexes registered as official “road
>stations” often using the nickname "Oasis” with the government, and
>others that are merely private businesses that provide a place to sit
>and relax and enjoy a coffee - but mapping the small  private
>businesses that do this as anything other than a “cafe” or “restaurant”
>or “convenience store” is very very difficult without some larger
>complex with a larger landuse with more amenities. 
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>http://www.nanmoku.ne.jp/modules/oasis/index.php?content_id=4/
><http://www.nanmoku.ne.jp/modules/oasis/index.php?content_id=4/>
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>an official “Road station” on a very narrow road in the mountains. 
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>http://michinoeki-shimonita.com <http://michinoeki-shimonita.com/>
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>A pretty large road station down in the valley. 
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>they are a collection of several shops and amenities - not a single
>building with a single purpose. 
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>Javbw



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