On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 09:42:38PM +1000, Liz wrote: > > shop=merchant > > merchant = timber|building-supplies|agricultural|garden|... > i don't see how shop and merchant are different > shop has been mostly used to describe retail trade > we are looking at tags suitable for commercial or industrial sites > sites which sell stuff which is too large to carry out of the > shop > (easily, one person) > sites which sell to tradesmen (or women)
I guess people replied before reading my PS :-) One could argue for supplies or merchant as the main tag and shop as a subtag, as I said there. But I assume that is too radical. Supplies is so general that it does not seem to offer any constraint. Merchant in everyday use (apart from merchant banker) does suggest the sort of place under discussion. But perhaps not to everyone judging by the reactions so far. The only other suggestion I have is to use "variant" as the subtag, but I begin to wonder if that is useful since it doesn't suggest any particular class. So shop=variant variant=building_supplies|timber_yard|agricultural|... I think this might be marginally better than supplies in that it does suggest that we are not dealing with a normal shop. Can someone come up with a better idea. Please :-) ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
