[Talk-us] [Tagging] Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe

[Val Kartchner]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 08:44 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > good summary. and because of the rule "fast food to be avoided" I rarely map these. and interestingly I see more real restaurants and cafe in osm. are most mappers foodies?
> 
> I tend to map whatever is on the ground, despite my feelings about
> whatever services may be offered or what is represented.
> 
> I think it would be nice to add a "restaurant guide" to the wiki that
> lists generally agreed-upon tags for popular chains like we are
> discussing, or have an easy interface into tagwatch or similar to see
> what other people are actually tagging on these businesses.

You can't go strictly by the chain name.  For instance (at least around
here) the older Pizza Hut restaurants are full-service-at-the-table
restaurants, and they all do take-out and delivery.  The new ones don't
even have tables, so they are strictly take-out and delivery.

- Val -