Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-02-15 11:04 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen : > The Van Gogh museum only displays paintings. their webpage says it does also display drawings and letters. Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Craig Wallace
On 2016-02-15 09:52, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2016-02-15 10:36 GMT+01:00 Steve Doerr >: So, in my opinion, are the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum: were it not for the element 'museum' in their names, we would think of these

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Marc Zoutendijk
> Op 15 feb. 2016, om 11:04 heeft Matthijs Melissen > het volgende geschreven: > > On 15 February 2016 at 10:52, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> Maybe the Van Gogh Museum >> does deal with van Gogh's life and not just with his work, what would

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 15 February 2016 at 10:52, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Maybe the Van Gogh Museum > does deal with van Gogh's life and not just with his work, what would > explain the term museum for this. The Van Gogh museum only displays paintings. -- Matthijs

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-02-15 10:36 GMT+01:00 Steve Doerr : > So, in my opinion, are the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum: were it not > for the element 'museum' in their names, we would think of these as art > galleries, not museums. I'm not sure for the Van Gogh Museum, but I am sure for

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Steve Doerr
On 15/02/2016 08:34, Max wrote: On 2016년 02월 15일 02:03, Warin wrote: To me a 'gallery' is a place that displays art .. not sells it. So Have you followed the two threads of discussion at all before sending this? I agree with Warin (and the OED note I quoted before): in British English, a

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-15 Thread Max
On 2016년 02월 15일 02:03, Warin wrote: > To me a 'gallery' is a place that displays art .. not sells it. So Have you followed the two threads of discussion at all before sending this? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 15.02.2016 um 00:55 schrieb Matthijs Melissen : > > Currently, basically nobody uses tourism=gallery to tag art museums > (even though the wiki specifies so), so I don't think there is a need > to change the tag to something like

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-14 Thread Warin
On 15/02/2016 11:35 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote: On 15 February 2016 at 01:29, Max wrote: I see two reasons why it would make sense: 1. the word gallery alone seems to cause so much confusion because of its ambiguity. 2. if we depreciate tourism=gallery and

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-14 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 15 February 2016 at 01:29, Max wrote: > I see two reasons why it would make sense: > > 1. the word gallery alone seems to cause so much confusion because of > its ambiguity. > 2. if we depreciate tourism=gallery and introduce > amenity=contemporary_art_gallery it

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-14 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 9 February 2016 at 00:20, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > What do you think, would it make sense to try to keep both shop=art > and tourism=gallery? Or should we discourage either of these options > in favour of the other? Or should we come up with new tags? Most people

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-02-09 10:21 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm : > (Leaving aside the fact that many museums will sell if the price is right!) can you back this up by some real examples? I also have thought about this and came to the conclusion that typically a museum would not sell parts of

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-11 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 11 February 2016 at 09:53, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > can you back this up by some real examples? I also have thought about this > and came to the conclusion that typically a museum would not sell parts of > their collection as long as it fits within their concept

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/09/2016 02:52 AM, Richard Welty wrote: > some galleries sell and others do not. i am thinking that there should be > an art tag that applies to all types of art galleries, supplemented by > shop=art for the ones that sell. What would in your eyes be the difference between a non-selling

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-02-09 0:20 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen : > What do you think, would it make sense to try to keep both shop=art > and tourism=gallery? > I'm for keeping both, but would prefer a less ambiguous tag for the latter, e.g. amenity=contemporary_art_gallery Cheers,

Re: [Tagging] Galleries versus art shops

2016-02-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/8/16 8:39 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-02-09 0:20 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen >: > > What do you think, would it make sense to try to keep both shop=art > and tourism=gallery? > > > > I'm for keeping both, but