[Tagging] Too many different features lumped together under amenity=social_facility?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 20. Apr 2020, at 20:02, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  No it isn't.  I'm entirely serious.  Amenity has come to mean miscellaneous.
> This is not a good thing.


this sounds as if you were implying it was different some time ago? Anyway, it is offtopic in this discussion unless you propose to move to a different key 



>  Instead of being presented with dozens (potentially hundreds) of
> amenity values to scroll through one can select social facility and get a
> sub-menu. This is easier and faster.


if menus are used, they can get structured in whatever way makes sense, they do not depend on the tags. Which tags are used is important when you type them yourselves, in preset menus you have to rely on the people that curate these and their translation


I need
> a better reason than the editors you choose to use mean the rest of us
> should suffer from your choices.


It’s not about _me_, it is about everybody who types tags rather than clicking them.

Cheers Martin