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I've seen more and more oddly tagged accommodations, tagged as I feel like adding an informal short term rentals, like those on Airbnb, is a sort of spam. It seems pointless having accommodation on the map that looks like a normal house from the outside, and people can't just walk in the front door, and ask if there's a free room. Is there any consensus on this? Some sort of minimum requirements for accommodation to be tagged? |
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Personally, if it looks like a hotel / guest house / whatever then I'd map it as such, which means "no sign outside == not mapped as a hotel in OSM". On the more general subject of spam, quite a lot of "broker" website operators are currently targeting OSM for "businesses" like "rubbish clearance $InsertNameOfPlace". Their websites sometimes have a street address on them and sometimes that street address matches the details they (or more likely someone they paid for SEO) added to OSM, but I suspect that many have no actual physical presence there, perhaps beyond a mail forwarding address. In OSM, verifiability should be key. If a business isn't visible as a business at its alleged business address, it doesn't belong in OSM. If you visit a place and it looks like a hotel, it's a hotel. If it looks like a private house, then just map it as that. Thanks SomeoneElse. Once you bring variability into it it becomes quite clear that they shouldn't be mapped w/o a sign.
(06 Oct '17, 19:25)
keithonearth
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Hi, tourism=guest_house seems logical, please see :- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dguest_house |
was discussed on the tagging mailing list in March: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2016-March/028905.html
I find it really hard to find data in the mailing list. Was any consensus reached there?
I thought "only when there is a sign", map them as guest house. But this is from memory.
@keithonearth I've just re-read that thread, and I think that the consensus was pretty clear :)
for the "unlicensed" aspect of it (i.e. hosts without a required license but with some sort of sign): you could use informal=yes for this, see the wiki.