[Tagging] Adding food=yes / food=no on amenity=pub - is it useful for all pubs?

Matija Nalis mnalis-openstreetmaplist at voyager.hr
Tue Aug 3 01:53:40 UTC 2021


On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:36:20 +0200 (CEST), Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Is it useful to add
> food=yes
> or
> food=no
> on all pubs?
>
> Would it be helpful to add food=yes or food=no on every single amenity=pub?

It would, but as others have pointed out, it is the definion of "food" that
seems to widely varying.  Are snacks like peanuts food?  Or pickles/cold
shrimps?  How about cold prepackaged sandwich? Haggis? etc. (others have 
provided more examples already...)

One might be very disappointed to visit a pub with food=yes, only to find
that only food are pickles or peanuts.  Or someone might've been quite happy
with sandwich, but miss it because someone mapped it food=no.

(Heck, in Croatia, if you ask our Customs, beer itself is classifed as food
- as opposed to wine and spirits which are not).

Suggestion then to avoid this ambiguity (even if it is not what you directly
asked for), might be to instead of "food" tag (or complement "food" with) 
one should use existing key cuisine=*.

So a pub might be "food=no" if nothing at all is offered but beer, or
"food=yes" + "cuisine=snacks" or "couisine=sandwich" or "cuisine=pie" or
"cuisine=burger" or "cuisine=soup" or "cuisine=barbecue" etc.  

(they can be combined too if needed, or perhaps just the "highest grade"
(most filling) food listed.

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