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I do contribute to OSM actually, really good project. Stuff like The Dawson Lounge and Porterhouse Central seem to be missing on their map which are present on

• maxerickson 11y ago
  It's the tagging, the article sticks to "amenity=pub" for simplicity, but OpenStreetMap might tag a place that serves alcohol "amenity=bar", "amenity=biergarten", "amenity=nightclub" or even "amenity=restaurant". Some of that is driven by the data model supporting arbitrary key value pairs instead of being structured, but I think there is also a tendency to try to build a convenient taxonomy that has handy mental "bundles" instead of abstracting things a little bit. A more abstract model might call them all amenity=meeting_place and then have flags for seating, alcohol, food, a dance floor, outdoor seating, etc., and leave the finer categorization up to the end consumer of the data. (I realize someone fooling around with OSM would know this, I'm trying to write for the HN audience)