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My local railway station is being re-developed and one of the cafes on the station is now operating out of a small kiosk. It is only selling drinks and pastries. In South-east England this type of coffee kiosk is common on railway stations. Elsewhere you find kiosks providing tourist information, or specific types of fast food (pretzels, bratwurst ...) or selling boat cruises: The current definition on the wiki suggests that I would therefore be interested to know :
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My recommendation would be to avoid using Now that shop=newsagent has bedded in a bit, if I could bring myself to start an argument on the matter, I would probably suggest that So in answer to your question I would do: You might say, because it's only a little kiosk, it's not really a cafe. Debatable I'm sure, but I tend to think in terms of "top level tags" to give a basic classification to a thing. In this case the most helpful basic classification would be cafe I reckon. I agree with pretty much all of this, except the cafe. I'd be pretty much miffed to use OSM to look for a cafe only to find it was just a kiosk selling drinks to go. building=kiosk covers a decent proportion of cases, but by no means all, notable exceptions are mall kiosks. Blog post on topic coming up.
(18 Aug '13, 08:07)
SK53 ♦
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After much reflection I have decided to use the tag There are at present a two of kiosk=ice_cream nodes in OSM. Other values which are relevant are: yes (when also an amenity), coffee (when not amenity=cafe), tickets, information, lottery (e.g. ONCE lottery ticket kiosks). The tag kiosk could also be used to map Mall Kiosks, locally these often over mobile phone services or accessories. |
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The wiki also says snacks and beverages (hate that word, drinks is better), so I think that covers the cafe you mention. A kiosk is a description of the type of building/method of service and IMHO can describe anything sold in this way (where the customer remains outside), and does not need to be so restrictive. TKTS in Leicester Square is a kiosk, although not tagged as such. 1
TKTS leicester square ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/348861308 ) is tagged amenity=ticket_office That's an awkward example because you could actually add shop=kiosk alongside that tag (because ticket office happens to be under the amenity key, whereas other examples would involve a clash on the shop key) ...but even so building=kiosk is a better tag to add as an additional "property tag" on the ticket office in my opinion.
(18 Aug '13, 01:06)
Harry Wood
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