Martin, So its ok to shift stuff from tourism but not shift stuff from amenity to emergency?
On 8/24/10, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/8/23 Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/8/23 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: >>> 2010/8/22 Claudius Henrichs <claudiu...@gmx.de>: >>> I'd very much like to see a toplevel-tag cultural (and probably >>> another one accomodation). > >> In fact, culture is so overwhelmingly general word, that it can be >> anything. I would avoid to use it. > > > actually I chose it because it is quite generic and there is a lot of > feature which best fits in there IMHO (libraries, museums, artwork, > theatres, cinemas, etc.) > >> >> It would help to see which old tags you think must be under new >> cultural toplevel tag. > > > For museums but especially for artwork like sculptures and mosaics > (the description is kind of suboptimal on the wiki, see: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dartwork > ) > I do despute that they belong to tourism. Why should a sculpture be > associated with tourism? > > But also the already mentioned picnic-site and zoos have the least to > do with tourism. Almost any feature can on the other hand be > associated with tourism (beach, river, lake, forest, tree, mountains, > fountains, churches, ...), even prisons ;-). > > Another point is that we already have leisure. Tourism is probably a > subclass of leisure, some of the tourism-features might fit better in > leisure (e.g. picnic-site, zoo). (but it can also be seen the other > way round: leisure is a subclass of tourism, see below). > > The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel > to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than > twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for > leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an > activity remunerated from within the place visited." > > I would not use tourism in OSM at all, as it can easily be devided > into the things that are now (partly) subsummized: accomodation, > eating and drinking, places of historical and/or cultural interest, > amenities like picnic places, natural features, leisure features like > zoos, etc. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
