this is precisely why I raised the question of whether a lounge is an amenity. it's not open to the general tourist population, for example, like a bank or a pharmacy.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Yves <yve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Given the definition of an airport lounge given earlier (a waiting room >> reserved for business or first class, operated by airlines company... ), I >> think the concept is fairly concise. >> > > Yes, the concept is concise. As is my response: why bother? > > >> Now expanding this to hotels and dentists is not possible and maybe there >> is no need to? >> Stations are more the issue here if there is something there close to the >> airport lounges. > > > In my youth, almost all railway stations had waiting rooms and none had > lounges (as you intend the term). > Decades ago many stations switched to unmanned operation and the waiting > rooms were closed (because of > vandalism in unattended stations) and still none had lounges. These days, > a handful of stations have lounges > but are outnumbered by stations with waiting rooms and/or bars/snack > bars/cafes. > > I doubt you'll find an airport that doesn't have a waiting room/area > somewhere. Probably also a bar or cafe. > Lounges are the expensive places catering to the rich customer > (executive-class ticket or money to burn on > food/drink) rather than the ordinary traveller needing a place to sit. > > Waiting rooms are present in hospitals, dentists' and doctors' surgeries. > Also in job centres, council offices > and other places. > > I can see tagging waiting rooms as being useful to the majority of data > consumers who use those types of > organizations, even though those are a minority of data consumers. This > tagging seems to cater to a > minority of a minority. If that's what you truly intend (it appears that > it is) then I won't oppose it but nor will > I support it. It's entirely possible I'd need to know if a station (or > even airport) has a waiting room. I don't > see me ever needing to know if it has a lounge (and for an airport it > would be a selling feature of the > business-class ticket, so I'd know anyway). > > So why bother? > > -- > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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