[OSM-talk-be] amenity differences entertainment

[Glenn Plas]

On 2013-07-30 09:24, Bart Vanherck wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After several years of non-activity on openstreetmap, I finally have 
> again some time to put again effort in the project. In the beginning I 
> completely tracked my city with my bike and my little garmin. I am 
> glad to see that now all has evolved so much.
>
> I saw however some faults which I fixed, but I have a little problem.
>
> In my city there is a new building in which only parties for the youth 
> are given, in dutch "fuifzaal".
> What is the best amenity key for such buildings?
>
> community_centre or social_centre ?
>
> It seems that the community centre is the most suitable, but the place 
> is not only for parties. What is in fact the real difference between 
> social and community centre ?
>

Welcome back Bart!

I believe it's better to focus on 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/social_facility 
instead if that you think about makes you consider using social_centre;  
social_centre seems to be out of favor,  The wiki is much more clear on 
social_facility,  it should be fairly obvious what that is/and isn't 
once you read that description, it's more clearly explained.  In 
general, it is more like some sort of shelter-like service (generalistic).

community centre is used for official type of amenities like city/town 
hall (e.g. stadhuis/gemeentehuis) , See

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_centre

For what you are thinking of, e.g. jeugdhuizen, feestzalen etc.  I would 
consider a combination with these:

amenity=community_center as you propose, it looks like the better 
match.  You could elaborate with 'operator' (e.g. Chiro for example) and 
/ or 'name' , So it shows on the map (with building=yes, that should be 
enough)

I figured there would have been a more descriptive way to do this, like 
one would use key 'tourism' for a bed&breakfast, but I cannot see 
something that better suits the goal.

Glenn