Hi all, I wonder: shouldn't we separate a conditioned room air in a hotel and an object temperature? I get the feeling that this discussion on a useful tag (how to denote the temperature of an object where it is needed) is slowly drifting away to defining about everything related to temperature.
I would concentrate on a set of specific examples (where are mappers/data users likely to want to tag/know the temperature?) and just define the set of the tag values for them. The cases that are not explicitly temperature-related shouldn't be covered by this tag in my opinion. An air-conditioned hotel room is a good counter-example for this tag. It's the comfort level rather than the temperature that is the goal. A temperature of the room is the secondary parameter here. Everyone would understand what an air-conditioned hotel is, but I would struggle to know whether +25 °C in July is comfortable for South Korea or not if I see it in the map. On the other hand, there may be a good exception. The American consulate in Moscow is notoriously known for overusing air conditioning and causing severe colds. People are advised to take pullovers and scarves with them in summer. I've experienced the same in McDonald's in Hungary. +20 °C may be a comfortable temperature but not when it's +35 °C outside and the conditioner is blowing like hell onto your head to keep the temperature down. For such cases, one could tag the place as AC-ed and cold. Summary: I suggest to use this tag (and discuss the recommended values for it) only for the temperature specific cases, not for the whole set of objects having some temperature. Cheers, Kotya On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/02/2015 3:45 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> A hotel room that has air conditioning may be both heated or cooled >> depending on the desired temperature and the ambient temperature (and the >> air conditioner). It usually supplies a measure of fresh air too. I think >> that this should be considered as part of the building .. and a sub tag >> developed for that? > > > In fact I think this is the key interesting characteristic to map: does it > have a chiller or heater at all? > The specific temperature is likely set by the user, or varies by the season, > and thus is a poor choice for a database key value. > > > Either the substance is supplied at local ambient, or a facility is made to > raise or lower the temperature: > > heated=yes > cooled=no > > > Most air conditioners here have the ability to both heat and cool at least > here and in the UK. > > The temperature in large offices, hotels here are usually set centrally .. > not by the guest or local worker. > > Why do you consider heated and cooled an 'interesting characteristic' and > how do you see it being rendered on to a map? Is it more > 'important/significant' than the suggested temperature values? If so .. why > has it not been proposed? > > I'd think that the vast majority will be interested in; > showers that are 'adjustable' in the conventional sense (yet to come across > a chilled water facility on a shower), > the temperature of water that comes out of a tap (hot, 'cold' or boiling). > Note thta boiling is different to hot, boiling can be used to make > tea/coffee, hot is not good for making tea/coffee. > > > > >> >> A heated pool would be warm, cooled would be cool? Same with spars and >> taps.. >> >> If adjustable, e.g. as most showers are, then the tag >> 'temperature=adjustable' is part of this proposal... > > > Frequently it's adjustable just one way. For example we have water heaters > for showers, but a water chiller is exceptionally rare. > > 'temperature=adjustable' does not capture it really. A hotel room with a > heater but no cooler for example is "adjustable", but > not a good place to go when it's 100F and humid. > > > Usually the adjustably provides for local conditions .. it would be rare to > want to reduce a showers temperature below the ambient. In some parts of > Asia the locals don't use showers for this reason - they use a scoop of > water to wet the body, the interval between scoops provide a time where > water evaporates thus providing cooling. Cheap, effective and efficient. > Would you label this 'cooled=yes'? I note that OSM does not have a tag for > this kind of washing facility. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
