User:Tantek.com/venue-category-emojis

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This page is for incrementally documenting emojis for venue categories, specifically for Foursquare venue categories, for use on recommendations lists for better display.

E.g. see gRegor Morrill's https://gregorlove.com/lists/food-and-drink/

Related but different use of emojis to indicate food item attributes at venues:

Have gone through my own Foursquare lists of recommendations so far:

  • ✅ Berlin
  • ...

Venue categories emojis

Brainstorming list of emojis for venue categories:

  • 🛒 supermarket
  • 🥘 kofte
  • 🥣 soup spot
  • 🍲 Vietnamese
  • 🍔 burgers
  • 🥤 juice bar
  • ☕️ coffee shop
  • 🍛 Indian
  • 🌱 vegan and vegetarian restaurant
  • ☕️ cafe
  • 🛒 organic grocery
  • 🛒 health food store
  • 🍲 Korean
  • 🛒 food & beverage
  • 🍣 sushi
  • 🍟 fast food
  • 🍞 bakery
  • ...

Multiple venue categories

Foursquare/Swarm allowed 1-3 categories per venue

  • a single "primary" venue category (by default, the first category assigned to the venue)
  • any time a venue category icon was shown, it represented that primary venue category

Perhaps display (up to?) three emoji per venue to indicate a broader range of what kind(s) of venue it is, in order of what they are most known for first

Concern: too many icons on a page may be confusing

Perhaps only display multiple emoji for a venue when that venue name is displayed on its own, or maybe in a small / short list.

Venue category by menu options

Coffee serving venue taxonomy

Brainstorming a taxonomy for places that serve coffee:

  • ☕️ espresso bar — primarily focused on espresso drinks, may also sell beans, a few pastries / other snacks. May have some seating. no hot food, unlikely even any assembled food.
  • ☕️ coffeehouse — primarily servers coffee and similar drinks, plenty of seating, serves as a meeting place
  • ☕️ coffee shop — has "diner" vibes in the US, without maybe being a full-on diner
  • ☕️ cafe — could be a place that serves some food / meals, likely to have "order at the counter" style service

Swarm coffee serving categories

Swarm (and Foursquare previously) has several coffee serving related venue categories:

  • ☕️ Café
  • ☕️ Coffee Shop

Typically serving at least drip coffee:

  • 🍳 Breakfast Spot
  • 🥞 Diner

Often serving some kind of (typically drip brewed only) coffee:

  • 🍩 Donut Shop
  • 🇫🇷 French Restaurant
  • ⛽️ Fuel Station

Rarely serving some kind of coffee:

  • 🍟 Fast Food Restaurant

OSM on cafes and coffee serving

What OSM does for cafes / places serving coffee is a mess and pretty useless IMO:

  • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coffee — a few bits copy/pasted here per fair use quoting:
    • shop=coffee
    • amenity=cafe + cuisine=coffee_shop – A café that mainly serves coffee
    • amenity=vending_machine + vending=coffee
    • drink:coffee=yes – Indicates that a feature serves coffee. Can be combined with such tags as e.g. amenity=pub, amenity=bar

attributes of coffee serving places

Brainstorming clusters of attributes of places that serve coffee:

  • see coffee Brainstorming / See Also for different attributes of coffee serving places

Attributes of things or services at coffee serving places

  • espresso machine
    • espresso drinks mixed with at least some form of milk
      • flat white
      • pretty espresso drinks (e.g. lattes)
      • 🍫 mochas
        • 🌱🍫 vegan chocolate
  • plant-based milks (soy, almond, rice, cashew, coconut, macadamia)
  • friendly barista
  • wifi
  • 🔌 outlets
  • standing bar
    • bar stools / high chairs
  • ground level seating
    • 🛋 couch(es)
    • 🪑 chairs
      • with tables
  • 🪟 windows
    • 👀 people watching
  • pastries
    • 🥐 croissants,
      • 🌱🥐 vegan croissants
      • 🥐🍫 chocolate croissants
        • 🌱🥐🍫 vegan chocolate croissants
    • muffins
    • option to warm them up
  • 🥯 bagels
    • toasted
    • toppings / inside
      • 🥯🧈 butter
      • (plant-based) cream cheese
      • 🥯🥜 peanut butter
      • 🥯🍌 banana
      • 🥯🍃 greens
      • 🥯🍅 tomato
      • 🥯🐟 lox
  • 🍞 toast
    • 🍞🥑 avocado toast
  • parking outside
    • bicycle racks
      • visible from cafe seating
    • car spots
  • parklet outside
  • 🌙 open late (til 20:00? 21:00? 22:00? 23:00? 24:00?)
  • 🚻 bathroom(s)
    • public or customers only
    • 🔢 numeric code or 🔑 key from server
    • 🫧 usually clean (or not)

Sources:

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