Tag:tourism=museum
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Proposal
To deprecate the historic=museum tag and replace it with tourism=museum
Tagging
- tourism=museum
- name=...
- operator=...
The vote is for a move to tourism=museum (rather than attraction=museum, as the original proposer suggested), as it does not require creation of a new top-level tag. Creation of an 'attraction' key could be done as another proposal.
Rationale
Museum is already in the Map Features list, as historic=museum, however this is a proposal to move museum to a different key, as 'historic' implies an ancient site, rather than, say, a newly-built museum building. This is significant as renderers may want to render all nodes with the 'historic' key as a generic icon, rather than different icons for different possible values.
There are a few possible alternatives:
tourism=museum fits in nicely with the existing set of tourism tags, but arguably museums are not just tourism attractions, but also for locals. Indeed, many small museums have a largely local audience, rather than attracting mainly international tourists.
amenity=museum just doesn't feel right to me. Museums are not 'amenities', and this key should be reserved for more practical points of interest.
leisure=museum might fit, but seems to apply more to sporting facilities.
attraction=museum - This is a new key, which the original proposer was suggesting. It would designate a generic visitor attraction, either for tourists, locals or both, and could contain zoos, art galleries, theme parks, aquariums, observation wheels (London Eye), and so on. This is still a possibility, but the move to a new attraction key can be put forward as a new proposal.
