Streetcomplete: additional building types

[Michele64]

restaurant library

[ENT8R]

Restaurant is not a building type (would probably be rather ameneity=restaurant)... You should not answer which is the current use of the building but the original purpose for which the building was built..
And library is IMO always a civic building, so this is already covered...

[ENT8R]

BTW: a little bit information would be useful if you create a new issue... e.g. explain your use case and why you would want to add this.

[westnordost]

There are buildings constructed as restaurants though.

In context of Europe, I can think of:

• inns/taverns (eating only), for example in forests, national parks or other touristic areas, or that typical one inn in a village
• restaurants and stalls at rest stops
• motorway restaurants, food courts
• staple food buildings (McDonalds etc)

[rugk]

In my experience I also commonly would want to answer "restaurant" or so, though. (Remember people/user of sc don't know the tagging behind the quest.)
Sometimes I just selected "shops" when there are just multiple restaurants or so, there.

[westnordost]

I started a discussion in the tagging mailing list.

[rugk]

Any link?

[westnordost]

You do not know where to find the tagging mailing list?

[rugk]

Not really… but even if I searched, I do not really love searching mailing list archives for whatever thing you have posted there. At least I am not subscribed and have no idea what subject you used etc. That's why I rather ask for a link, so I and anyone at this issue can just follow it,

[ENT8R]

This is the first mail: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-September/039343.html

[rugk]

Thx :smiley:

[westnordost]

Okay, so the result of the discussion is that there should not be an extra tag for that and "retail" is fine.

Any ideas how we could change the wording (or add a description) to retail to be more inclusive to restaurants, cafés, taverns and pubs, etc?

[rugk]

"shops (including restaurants, …, …)" would be the obvious, but possibly not the most elegant choice.

[matkoniecz]

"shops / restaurants"?

"shops / food places"?