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

[Brian Prangle]

In the West Midlands we have dozens of these which cater mainly for Asian
weddings and celebrations where large extended families have to be catered
for. Probably the same in most large urban areas. I generally just tag them
as building=yes and  with the name on the display board which usually says
"banqueting centre" not "banqueting hall"


On 22 August 2013 10:03, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> 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/ <http://www.lumleycastle.com/elizabethan-banquets/>but that is not detailed currently ;)
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?**relation=146749#map=17/54.**85361/-1.55454<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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