I think the two tags have a clear and useful difference, and that cartographic styles such as the default OSM.org map could always show the apple symbol for both.
Regards, Tom On 8 July 2011 22:42, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm interested in propsing an icon for "shop=farm", for highlighting > roadside farm stands (this is a fun travel activity, as such farm stands are > often not listed in the Yellow pages or conventional maps). > > I've thought a single apple is a reasonable symbol for this. > > However, the existing greengrocer tag has a single apple in potlatch2 (no > rendering in mapnik or osamarender). What would people think of merging the > greengrocer and farm tags into one, then using the apple as the symbol? > > I see a lot of overlap between the two tags. If there is any distinction > between the two tags it is usually clear in context: in the middle of a city > it is more like a "greengrocer" , and out in a rural area it is more like a > "farm stand". Many rural farm stands these days sell bananas and exotic, so > that hardly distinguishes the two. > > For an example farm stand see: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/node/1352771842<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1352771842> > For an example "Green Grocer" see: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/way/32456726<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32456726> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/tagging<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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