[mkgmap-dev] Tagging restaurants and categories

Mon Mar 2 20:07:33 GMT 2020

I've noticed that category searching on my Garmin Nuvi that it will not 
find Dunkin' Donuts when searching for Donut/Bagel in the USA.  I ended up 
finding out that if an amenity is tagged amenity=fast_food the restaurant 
will automatically be placed in the fast food category and nothing else. 
The rub is that pretty much all donut/bagel shops necessarily are "fast 
food" because the food needs to be prepared well in advance, waiting a 
half hour or more for yeast to rise for fresh prepartion would be very
inconvenient.

According to 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/POI_Types it seems 
that perhaps only one category can be added per restaurant.  In this case 
I wonder if it would be better to have categorization slightly different 
where fast_food would be a later conditional, so that (in the USA) 
Fazoli's (fast semicasual italian), Dunkin' Donuts, Einstein Bagels, 
Winchell's, Lamar's Donuts, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Pizza Hut (fast casual 
pizza), etc. should show up as their food category rather than simply as 
fast food.

This is a bit tougher to manage with the automatic categorization with the 
template tags when editing in iD.  I found a few independent donut shops 
and having a hard time deciding whether to mark them as fast_food as they 
definitely are, but they will subsequently not show up as a donut/bagel 
shop.

Comments, or perhaps nobody really uses these things to find shops 
anymore...