On 20/01/2010, at 6:44 PM, Peter Childs wrote: > Cafe, Bar, Pub etc. > > The line is weather it sells Beer, or other Alcoholic Beverages,
As another data point, here's what I define them as in Australia - not guaranteed to be the same as other .au definitions: Restaurant - Place to go and get a meal, often serves alcohol too but you don't go there just for the alcohol (often enforced by licensing restrictions). Cafe - Similar to the above, but does "snack" food (small pastries etc.) and coffee more often and alcohol less. Bar - Place that serves alcohol. May serve food too (especially snacks), but you don't go there just for food. Pub - Serves food and alcohol, can go there for either alone. Often behaves like a bar when late and the kitchen is closed. Coffeeshop - Serves coffee and often snacks. Less likely to go there for food without coffee (e.g. Starbucks) Hotel - Often accommodation and a pub. In small rural towns, will be *the* accommodation, *the* pub, and may be the general store too :) And then we get to Clubs, which range from "pub associated with a sports team/life savers/RSL" to the huge ones like the Bankstown RSL, which contains something like 8 restaurants, 5 bars and a few hundred hotel rooms. I don't think we've ever going to get a consistent meaning of things like "cafe", since they've fairly vague distinctions from other things. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
