[Talk-us] motel vs. hotel

[Bryan Housel]

Good question!
As others have said - hotels have rooms that open indoors, motels have rooms that open outdoors.  That’s the only difference.

I did a bit of research on this last year for https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index <https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index> because we are using this project to capture the recommended tagging for all the brands of the world.

Check out the hotel/motel files here if you are curious!
https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/tree/master/brands/tourism <https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/tree/master/brands/tourism>

For example:
Super 8 is almost always tagged as `tourism=motel`, and Travelodge is almost always tagged as `tourism=hotel`, even though both brands often exist in either kind of building.

I think this is one of those tags where it really doesn’t matter much which one people use.

Bryan



> On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:47 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 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1645570>
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
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