[Talk-GB] Tagging Banquetting Halls (neither hotels, not community centres)

[Lester Caine]

OpenStreetmap HADW wrote:
>> >specialist market band wagon, 'Banqueting hall' is another use that could be
>> >applied anywhere, but I can see that being a specialist type of restaurant
>> >rather than a 'hall' since essentially it's a place to eat with some form of
>> >themed entertainment?
> Whilst "banqueting hall" is used in the PR material for the place in
> question, what is actually on sale is the use of the building and some
> very basic services.  The patrons are expected to source food and
> entertainment from third party contractors.

This is where the current tag setup is something of a mess. There are gaps in 
the 'building' tag which get building=yes and some other tag ( 7000+ building=no 
is interesting ;) ) but with some 4600 different tags for 'building' simply 
adding banqueting_hall is probably perfectly valid as well.

Probably the right way to tag these type of operations is ...
landuse=commercial
building=commercial
amenity=hall - which is not listed under amenity, but is used
website=xxx - which will give the details (if we could access them from the map)
But it's all so inconsistent with other buildings?

There is amenity=banquet_hall used but personally I'd expect that to be 
something more like a tourist attraction 'medieval banquet' venue running mainly 
themed events? Something like http://www.lumleycastle.com/elizabethan-banquets/ 
but that is not detailed currently ;) 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=146749#map=17/54.85361/-1.55454 - 
actually that need s alot of tidying up to add missing detail.

The bottom line is "do we add the fine detail?" ... places like Lumley are a 
hotel, restaurant, banqueting hall, and so on, so should there be tags for each? 
If a hotel does not accept non-residents in it's restaurant then it's not tagged 
... it's function room may be tagged as 'licensed for weddings' or just 
receptions ... where do you stop :)

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