Dave, as you'll note in another email I just sent, I will drop gaming centres from the Internet_cafe proposal. I have been to a couple of these, and one didn't focus on Internet services, while the other did. I suppose if you're looking for a gaming centre, you're probably not looking for an internet cafe, and vice versa.
The tag "adult gaming centre" already exists and has something to do with gambling, I think. Unfortunate that the gambling industry has occasionally hijacked the word gaming to use as a euphemism. I'll include a suggestion to use "amenity=gaming_centre" for the LAN Gaming Center, PC bang, etc., that focuses on gaming rather than internet. And again, an "internet cafe" has nothing to do with food/drink, as the proposal specifically notes. It's just a term of art for English speakers that is a holdover from the earliest days of such businesses. Someone suggested "crappy little shops" but I don't think that's terribly helpful :) On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Replying in part to Dominic's comment: Internet cafes are fairly rare here > in Thailand because Internet is available in almost every public venue; > hotels, coffee shops, even bars. What we do see are gaming rooms, full of > internet-connected computers and teenagers. While Thailand is not quite a > first-world country, it is way ahead of the U.S. in terms of Internet > adoption, fiber connections to homes, etc. I have fast fiber service in my > rental home, TV with 40 cable-channels included, for about $20 USD per > month. In the U.S. I would need to pay 2 or 3 times that amount for low end > DSL and even now very few places offer fiber. > > The terms discussed in the proposal, cybercafe and other variants that > imply food and beverage, don't work well for those places because they are > for gaming. One would not go there because it's a cafe; any food or drink > is offered purely as a convenience. I've never tagged any of these because > I'm not quite sure how to tag them. >
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