Talk:Tag:leisure=outdoor seating

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Please, translate this site leisure=outdoor_seating from German to English version. Lenochod 14:38 5 March 2016

Why do we need this tag?

It's such a great opportunity to have a choice between amenity=cafe + outdoor_seating=yes and leisure=outdoor_seating + cafe=yes. Is there a discussion about this tagging scheme? --Alexander-II (talk) 13:54, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

* This grate oppertunity is really confusion an does make no sense in this way.
* There was a discussion of some people in the German part of the forum. At least it was one person... No further discussion --EinKonstanzer (talk) 19:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
This looks like a great example of how 1 or 2 persons can create an unneeded tag with >20K instances without a discussion. I came across it by viewing a mass edit that violated the automated code of conduct. As the edit was done with the iD editor, I assume that this feature is selectable in that editor. I don't know whether the person who added this to the editor is the same who created the wiki page without any proposal, but either way it took no more than 2 persons to make the tag spread.
I am less concerned about the amenity=cafe issue than about the unclear distinction to tourism=picnic_site and leisure=picnic_table. A leisure=outdoor_seating may probably contain one or more picnic_table, but a picnic_site may also consist of multiple tables, so what? How does leisure=outdoor_seating differ from tourism=picnic_site + access=customers? This should be discussed and clarified in a proposal before creating the feature page, let alone before adding it to an editor template.
It's now probably too late to get entirely rid of this tag, but not too late to remove it from the said editor and to start a proposal process on its meaning and to think about how to clean up the mess in the data. --Fkv (talk) 21:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
* Use leisure=outdoor_seating to tag seating areas. To tag a cafe with outdoor seating, use amenity=cafe + outdoor_seating=yes. The location associated with this tag is for the cafe, not the outdoor seating area. --Mizmay (talk) 22:28, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
* Some public seating areas are not associated with a single cafe. Many are not adjacent. Thus leisure=outdoor_seating is not duplicative. It should be used to tag the seating area. --Mizmay (talk) 22:28, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
* tourism=picnic_site should be associated with a picnic area in a park, historical site, or tourist attraction, whereas leisure=outdoor_seating is a neighborhood or other public amenity, often in urban areas. Combining the two will not be intuitive to most users. --Mizmay (talk) 22:28, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

outdoor_seating=balkon

Clearly, that tag is inappropriate, as it is in German. Currently, it is used 11 times (See Taginfo), mostly in Germany. Can we change this to outdoor_seating=balcony? --Nohmok (talk) 09:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Well... To me it does not sense in this way. The original idea was something different. The intension was a kind of a picnic site in a park, but much more conftable in a manner like outdoor_seating in cafe.
And sometimes there are beverages or food served. And then the question comes up where are differences to a restaurant with outdoor seating. There is not really a separation of this... --EinKonstanzer (talk) 19:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Complementary tags, optional

I made two new pages for the additional tags weather_protection=* and outdoor_seating:comfort=*.

But I don't know what to do with the rest of this table. I don't understand what most of these proposed tags would mean. What is the point of adding "hotel=yes"? Why is "food=yes" defined as "Limited dining offer compared to indoor dining"? --Jeisenbe (talk) 13:48, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Key Value Description
hotel yes Hotel; outdoor areas of a hotel (e.g., breakfast / lunch)
restaurant yes Restaurant; outdoor offer
cafe yes Coffee shop; outdoor offer
pub yes Pub with outdoor dining
bar yes Bar - The area outside
beer_garden yes Restricted service
fast_food yes Snack / fast food restaurant - outdoor area
food yes Limited dining offer compared to indoor dining
ice_cream yes Ice service; also for ice cream parlors

But with no seats

What happens when the deck, balcony, terrace, patio is there, but just happens to not have any seats?

E.g., a w:pergola without seats.

Say people just stand around chatting -- they never bothered to install seats. How to tag?Jidanni (talk) 00:13, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

One seat

One seat, it's outdoors, no restaurant nearby, and it's not a amenity=bench, but a seat. How to tag?

OK, a capacity=1 bench.

Jidanni (talk) 05:08, 16 September 2023 (UTC)