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[mkgmap-dev] style-file: tourism=resort

From Marko Mäkelä marko.makela at iki.fi on Mon Jul 26 18:45:01 BST 2010

Hi Dani,

Welcome to the club. I guess everyone will sooner or later realize that 
the Garmin software is crap but the hardware is reasonable. I sort of 
knew that before I got the Edge 705 in January 2009. I will jump ship as 
soon as someone produces something reasonably open that I can use when 
bicycling in any weather (including rain or winter), with a sturdy 
handlebar mount and cadence/heart rate sensors. I hope that my Edge 
won't die before that. :-)

I don't really agree on the furniture shops, though. In a big city, you 
may have furniture shops in the outskirts, and you might pick up a 
carpet or some decoration items when travelling.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:43:40AM +0200, Daniela Duerbeck wrote:
>I thought a resort was something like: 
>http://www.centerparcs.com/EN/GB/home

Funny, I just mapped a somewhat similar site, http://www.visulahti.fi. I 
did not use tourism=resort, but tourism=camp_site, leisure=water_park, 
tourism=museum, tourism=artwork, amenity=restaurant, and the like.

>The funny thing is that also the translators for the localized versions 
>of Garmin devices are not sure what Garmin originally meant with 
>"Resort".

Don't get me started on that. In the Edge 705, Units is translated to 
"Laitteet" (Devices) in Finnish. Power is translated to "voima" (force), 
and in the Finnish translations, a possible unit of altitude is miles (I 
guess it'd be feet).

>Normally I would suggest to recycle this item but it is located under
>lodging and there is no other thing that would make sense to be
>summarized under this item in my opinion.

There is one, which I was just about to commit:

+amenity=nursing_home [0x3002 resolution 21]

But 0x3002 is already crowded (hospitals, doctors, healthcare=* etc).  
Nursing homes are a form of lodging, so reusing the code of resort seems 
reasonable.

>P.S: BTW: If you add something the next time to the svn I would suggest
>to add cuisine=bavarian to the same item as cuisine=german at
>amenity=restaurant.

During my stay in Lübeck back in 1994, someone sent a postcard from 
Bavaria to the student dormitory. The address line included 
"Deutschland", implying that Bavaria is not Germany. But OK, I will 
comply. :-)

	Marko



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