[Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

[Ian Dees]

I think your description of motels as parking directly outside rooms is
good, but I've seen plenty of motels that had multiple stories.

Wikipedia's page on motels is good and has this definition:

"a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose
doors faced a parking lot and in some circumstances, a common area or a
series of small cabins with common parking"

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 6:49 PM Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us> wrote:

> How do you distinguish between the tourism=hotel and tourism=motel tags?
>
> The criteria that I was imagining is that a motel is a single story
> building where you have the ability to park you car directly outside of
> your room. A hotel would be other types of buildings such as multi-story
> where most guests cannot park directly outside their room.
>
> There's the curious case of the two Motel 6 facilities directly across the
> road from each other.  I had marked these as tourism=hotel based on the
> building architecture, but maybe all Motel 6's should be tourism=motel?
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
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