[OSM-talk] How to contribute new tag and symbol?

[Adam Schreiber]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ingo Lantschner
<listen2007 at lantschner.name> wrote:
>
> Am 21.05.2009 um 18:42 schrieb Adam Schreiber:
>
>>> I created a symbol and some rules for the key/value "tourism/
>>> apartment".
>>
>> I think you need to find a different key than apartment.  It seems you
>> want to tag an extended stay hotel from the description:
>> ...
>> , but in the US apartment is used to describe any rental unit in a
>> building with other rental units whether they are flats, townhomes, or
>> a mixture of the two.
> That could start an endless discussion since there is practically no
> term which is both generic (including holiday-flat, business-
> apartment, serviced-apartment but excluding large-scale aparthotels
> and all forms of B&B) without being ambiguous in a transcultural
> context. So I think at least for the tagging we must just choose
> something semi-optimal. May be that "apartment" was not the best
> compromise. Any idea of what we can use instead if it?

I'd just call it a hotel.

>>> A description for this node is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags#References
>>
>> This is the incorrect link.
> oops - here is the correct one: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags#Tourism
>
>
> Cheers, ingo
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