[OSM-talk] Amenity key

Claudius claudius.h at gmx.de
Fri Oct 22 18:06:21 BST 2010


Am 22.10.2010 18:28, David Murn:
> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 07:55 +0200, Peter Körner wrote:
>> Am 21.10.2010 23:29, schrieb Sean Horgan:
>>> The definition of such a tag/key that is so common the database (3+%
>>> according to taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/amenity),
>>> needs more than a single line definition.
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion?
>
> One way I heard it described, is an amenity is something youre likely to
> want to navigate to.  While that description is a bit vague, it seems to
> fit most current applications of the key.

Like amenity=prison ;) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Prison

Generally I agree with your definition and the idea of a short singline 
line one though.

Claudius




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