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In Chile, too, any place calling itself a "motel" is actually a discreet place for a rendezvous and often surrounded by high walls for privacy’s sake. This act
by Mediterraneo10 8y ago
In Chile, too, any place calling itself a "motel" is actually a discreet place for a rendezvous and often surrounded by high walls for privacy’s sake.
This actually creates problems for OpenStreetMap, because Chileans, unaware of what "motel" means in the rest of the world, tend to tag these places using OSM’s "motel" tag even though it is arguably inappropriate in this context. (Similarly, because of the similarity of the Spanish word hostal ‘hotel’ and English hostel, unaware OSM editors in this region tag all kinds of ordinary hotels as hostels.)