Project of the week/2010/Sep 19

Cinemas and Theatres

What are you watching? Cinemas and theatres can provide diversion and entertainment. Some places have thriving tourism economies based on theatre. Other places have numerous jobs for people creating films to ship around the world.

This Project of the Week adds your local cinemas and theatres to the map.

Tagging

Cinemas and theatres each are suitable to place as a node, a node within a shared-use building, or as a building polygon.

• amenity=cinema
• name=*

• amenity=theatre
• name=*

Cinemas vs. theatres

Cinemas show films, theatres show live performances of plays, music, comedy, etc. Many North American cinemas might be called, Something Theatre, but should still be tagged as amenity=cinema.

When a venue shows both recorded and live performances, use your judgement to select either cinema or theatre.

Example

Picture/Description	Tags	Mapnik	Osmarender
Royal Opera House London	amenity=theatre name=Royal Opera House
Odeon West End London	amenity=cinema name=Odeon West End