[OSM-talk] Amenity definition question

[Alex L. Mauer]

Jeffrey Martin wrote:
> I was looking at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:highway/tertiary
> and it had a list of default amenities.
> 
> One of them was
> 
> I took a look in the dictionary and the first definition was "an
> agreeable way or manner; courtesy; civility: the graceful amenities of
> society."
> 
> Most of the examples I find for the word amenity refer to things that
> are built like a toilet or a park bench.
> 
> How do we use the word in OSM?

From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=amenity

2.  Something that contributes to physical or material comfort.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

-- 
Bad - You get pulled over for doing 90 in a school zone and you're drunk
off your ass again at three in the afternoon.
Worse - The cop is drunk too, and he's a mean drunk.
FUCK! - A mean drunk that's actually a swarm of semi-sentient
flesh-eating beetles.
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