[talk-ph] Tags for Resorts

[Mike Collinson]

Jim gives the answer I would give. I mapped about 150 places in Boracay and used tourism=hotel on almost all of them.  Occasionally I also use tourism=hostel for "backpacker" places, i.e. offering bunk-room style accommodation.

It would be nice, though, to specifically tag as resorts.  Perhaps we should do a simple addition of resort=yes?  One dream I have is an on-line map of the Philippines where potential foreign tourists who know little about country can see clusters of resort hotels, indicating a nice place to go, and then zoom in for a closer look.

Mike


At 06:48 AM 15/04/2009, Jim Morgan wrote:
>I've been using tourism:hotel for most of them. If I put guest house in there I think it must have been the kind of place where you might stay long term if you're working there. Different sort of clientelle to a hotel. And chalets are stand-alone, self contained dwellings, whereas guest houses are more like apartments in a condo. 
>
>So I guess what I'm saying is that if it looked like a real tourist place, I'd just use hotel as a blanket "you can stay here if you pay money" tag. So that seems the most likely for you to use. Guest Houses and Chalets also have their own place, so I don't see why they can't all be used. 
>
>I did a pretty thorough job on the available accommodation along the beachfront, so I'd be surprised if there were many missing there. In the back alleys I did miss a couple, but there's another mapper in Boracay who's been filling those in. 
>
>Oh, one last thing ... while I was putting the resorts in, I was trying to put them in as rectangular ways marked with building=yes so they render on the map as a purple area, which I thought looked better than a single dot, and more like a Real map. It would be good to continue with this tradition if possible. I can give you a hand getting the data in if you like. 
>
>Jim
>
>Ed Garcia wrote, On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:05 AM:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Just wanted to ask what is the standard tag that we are using for
>> Resorts?   I was studying the Boracay area and found two tags: 
>> tourism:guest_house  and tourism:chalet  What standard are we to adapt? 
>> I would like to put in many resorts from my collection of GPS waypoints.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> ed
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