Hi,
as some public telephones might get removed in these days, in many countries we still have some. Also many of them are covered but in different kinds of. Now I'm thinking about how to tag the different types of a telephone cover. I mean, a closed phone box is different from for example just a little glass roof, which we have in Germay often.
Here are what we have:
1. covered=booth for closed phone-boxes, but some mappers do not really like that. I think covered=booth and booth=* to specify the type of booth (or to tag that there is a booth at all, both variants are used) were added to the wiki 2010 without discussion. Here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-June/037336.html we had a discussion about whether to drop covered=booth, because it does not really fit into the covered=yes/no scheme, assuming there is one. But "covered" can have other values for other types of covered things (often raods), too. The discussion ended up with letting stay covered=booth but the was no real consensus.
2. Some mappers say "booth" is not really a good key name for phone boxes.
3. What is about the other types of telephone covers? We have at least two more, the "phone hoods" which cover the user partially but are not closed, and the flat glass roofs.
My suggestion here would be to add something like covered=closed_phone_box (instead of covered=booth), covered=phone_hood and covered=roof for these, but the question is whether key covered=* is suitable for this. Or should we stay with a stricter covered=yes/no and maybe add something like covered_by=phone_hood or something?
4. And what are we going to do with phones like this: https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1177/539646770_464dffea77_b.jpg ? The phone itself is covered, but the user of it will be not. Is that covered=yes or covered=no?
--Lukas
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