[talk-au] How to tag clubs

[James Livingston]

On 05/01/2009, at 12:51 PM, Roy Rankin wrote:
> This has raised in my mind the question of how should registered clubs
> such as RSL and sports clubs be tagged. They tend to be very similar  
> to
> pubs in that they usually serve alcohol, have gambling, and serve  
> food.
> They differ from pubs by having restricted access to members and out  
> of
> area people. They also do not normally have accommodation.

I've been thinking about this recently too, and the vagueness of what  
a "pub" is. The only thing I can think of that all things called a pub  
have in common is that you can get a beer there (excluding Slim Dusty  
songs). Some of the features that pubs can have include at least:
* meals, from over the counter to a named restaurant in the same  
building
* accommodation (particularly the pub in a country town)
* purchasing alcohol to take away, either a separate section or over  
the counter
* gambling facilities, ranging from horse/dog/etc racing, to Keno and  
the like, to poker machines
* games like darts or a pool table
* miscellaneous facilities for the country town, such as being the  
post office or bank

There are probably a whole heap more too. Personally I think that a  
place that you can't get a meal is a bar not a pub, but I haven't seen  
a tag for that.


> As clubs are a good travellers resource they clearly need to be  
> tagged,
> but what is the consensus on how to tag clubs?

I'd say that the important things for travellers would be  
accommodation, and food/beer. Helpfully you can have both amenity=pub  
and tourism=hotel on the same node, but I don't know if doing that is  
good or how to tag other information (being fairly new to OSM).


Cheers,
     James