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How to tag bars/pubs with gambling machines?

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In Germany and many other European countries we do have bars, pubs and restaurants with gambling machines inside. They are no real gambling centers nor "casinos" but are normally small places that do have these machines inside. Nevertheless from my perspective they give a different flair to the place. I don't want to argue if it is good or bad but it is different. So I would say it is worth mapping it.

Does anyone know how we could tag such places? Would the following work:

amenity=pub

gambling=slot_machines

I could not find in the Wiki if the tag gambling is used in this combination.

asked 14 Jul '19, 09:29

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There's no problem with adding a gambling=* value to amenity=pub, amenity=bar etc. This combination is not called out specifically in the wiki, but it is currently in use in Europe (mainly France and Germany.)

answered 17 Jul '19, 13:18

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Thank you very much for your answer. Great I did not know that. I will do it as you described. Do you think there is the need to add this to the Wiki?

(24 Jul '19, 08:44) EliasPajares
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Sure why not? I updated https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:gambling to reflect this usage.

(24 Jul '19, 17:29) jmapb

Thank you very much for adding it to the wiki.

(31 Jul '19, 22:17) EliasPajares

Source code available on GitHub .