[Tagging] Was there every a proposal for the disused:key=* / abandoned:key=* lifecycle prefixes?

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 16:12:57 UTC 2019


On 26/09/2019 16:48, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Paul Allen wrote:
>> BTW, that's on national cycle route 82, so whether or not it really is
>> a pub would be of interest to some mappers.
> Oh, has that closed? That's a shame. (I stayed in St Dogmaels a few years
> ago, thought the Castle Inn looked wonderfully old-fashioned, and was
> planning to go but was diverted by some other excellent pubs nearby. Not
> least the one in St Dogmaels itself which served Gwynt y Ddraig Black
> Dragon. I'd hoped to return one day... ah well.)
>
>> Mapping it as amenity=pub + disused=yes would (if carto
>> is consistent with other times I've tried disused=yes) render it as a pub
>> where disused:amenity=pub does not render it as a pub.
> Sure, but OSM isn't just about rendering, let alone just osm-carto
> rendering. A "find a pint of beer near me" app which does a proximity search
> for amenity=pub won't work very well if some of those pubs... aren't pubs.
>
> amenity=pub means "actually a pub", not "thing that looks like a pub".

https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=20&lat=52.0802094&lon=-4.660442

Works for me.  I might be tempted to keep the "name" set (or perhaps 
"old_name") if there's still a sign outside, since I think it's 
reasonable to think of that as the building or old pub name.

Cheers,

Andy





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