Capacity:outdoor or outdoor_seating:capacity

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Hi,

I amended the wiki on how to tag capacity in outdoor and indoor seating areas. I currently picked the most used tag, however, I think there are two valid good options, so here is a pool to see what the preference is in the active community.

  • capacity:out/indoor
  • out/door_seating:capacity
  • other
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Let me know if there are any major flaws in either tag that I overlooked. IMHO both have good arguments for them, but no problems.

Thanks,
C

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They aren’t the same. capacity:*door= would include standing. On the other hand, *door_seating:capacity= could be limited to eateries, following the =outdoor_seating roots.

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I agree, they are not the same.

capacity:indoor could also apply to e.g. a parking place, while outdoor_seating:capacity is clearly about the capacity of an outdoor seating area.

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Interesting points! I have not thought about it like that.

However, the reality of the map is that the tags are used interchangeably and almost exclusively for food/drink places, see this query.

Not a single parking space has any of these tags.

Hard to tell how much mappers differentiate between seating and standing…

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Does “*door seating” include the stools at the bar, or only the chairs at the tables?

Then if your outdoor seating is picnic benches, they’re comfortable for 3 adults each side, but usable by 5 kids!

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I’d say seating is seating and we typically use “average” people as measure. That might be different in nightclubs compared to childcare POIs.

There are already subtags in use like for the number of tables outdoor_seating:tables, or the type of seating outdoor_seating:comfort=benches. And there are also tags to distinguish “types” of people like capacity:children or (not yet) capacity:adult that can be combined with these seating tags.