in Canada, fuel stations usually have what we call "Corner stores" or "Dépanneurs" which are some times the same company, but often are a different brand than the fuel they sell:
Example Ultramar gas can be serviced by "Quickie" corner stores. On Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 11:33 AM Philip Barnes, <[email protected]> wrote: > It will depend on the type of shop, if they are just a traditional > forecourt shop catering for people in cars or on motorcycles selling oil, > bulbs, sweets and cans of pop then mapping it as shop=yes is fine. > > A lot in the UK, but not all by any means, are also full convenience shops > In rural areas it will be the village shop and the majority of customers > will not be buying fuel. > > If I am camping and need something for breakfast I am going to search for > food shops and need to find the SPAR at the shell garage. Searching on fuel > may not get my breakfast. > > Shell for example are often Spars. I am guessing pay at pump went so that > you buy something in the shop. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > On 15 March 2018 14:53:32 GMT+00:00, Michael Reichert < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Philip, >> >> Am 2018-03-15 um 13:46 schrieb Philip Barnes: >> >>> Normally the shop is mapped as a separate object. It is usually a separate >>> brand too. The fuel object is on the forecourt, usually the building roof. >>> It is perfectly possible to tag each with separate opening hours. >>> >> >> Most fuel stations in Germany have a shop but almost all have no >> separate shop in OSM. I think that mappers aren't even aware that it >> should be mapped separately because they think it is "normal" that a >> fuel stations has a small shop. >> >> Best regards >> >> Michael >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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