[OSM-talk] landuse for hotels

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/6 John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net>:
>
> On 6 Aug 2009, at 07:47, Mark Williams wrote:
>
>> Stephan Plepelits wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:54:01PM -0700, Joseph Scanlan wrote:
>>>> What landuse are we using for hotels?  I'm pretty sure it should be
>>>> commercial or retail.
>>> For the area of the hotel:
>>> amenity=hotel
>>>
>>> And for the hotel itself:
>>> amenity=hotel, building=yes
>>>
> Sounds good but it's tourism=hotel not amenity! :-)

I guess even for business-hotels, or is there a distinction made?

IMHO  building=hotel is better than building=yes

cheers,
Martin