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

[Adam Schreiber]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Claudius <claudius.h at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 21.05.2009 23:37, 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.
>>
>
> IT don't think it qualifies as a hotel at all because you can and have
> to do most of the "housework" yourself there. What about
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_rental

I'm not sure that fits either.  I think he's desscribing someplace like:

http://www.extendedstayamerica.com/

Cheers,

Adam