On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:49:31AM +1000, Warin wrote: > On 9/05/2015 11:10 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > >On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Matthijs Melissen > ><[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Note that we also have shop=trade. It would be good to make the > > difference between both tags clear (of deprecate shop=trade, which I > > wouldn't oppose). > > > > > >"trade" is an attribute. > > > >Any type of shop (plumbing, electrical, lumber, restaurant supplies) could > >be trade focused. > >Such shops do not cater to walk in consumer traffic, and may be hostile to > >customers > >who come in without trade knowledge. > > > > Wholesale implies a large quantity of goods, they sell in quantity (the > quantity may be over some time, say a year). > > A 'Trade' shop implies specialist goods and specialist knowledge, not things > that are present in supermarkets. > An Electronics trade shop will know what a 12 puff capacitor is and have > several types available, high Q please. > A Plumbers trade shop will have several types of stop cocks available... > etc. > > A trade shop may accept walk in customers .. but give them retail prices > where as a trade person would get trade price. > Some trades are protected by law and a trade shop may refuse sales based on > that .. usually safety related.
Yes. That was the sort of thing I meant when I invented shop=trade... ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
