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> On Oct 18, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 18.10.2015 um 02:28 schrieb John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>:
>> 
>> I find shop=trade too generic to be useful, as there are many different 
>> trades besides the building-construction trades.
> 
> 
> +1, 
> 

+1

It seems to follow the old "tradesmen vs college" division - but a lot pf white 
collar geek jobs (like web and graphic design) are often more like modern trade 
jobs now - a person can slap their name on a business card and rent a small 
room and start making "things."

Craft is a bit better, as it is still pretty narrow scope - but trade vs shop 
vs office seems a little weird. 

Maybe it is a distinctiin that is stronger in some regions than others - farm / 
industrial / commercial / retail / is a great distinction for landuse names - 
the business types should follow a similar divide. Trying to split commercial 
up into trade/office and retail into craft/shop leads to some weird 
distinctions. 

A lot of craft people have shops in the workshop for their work - and some 
trades are in offices. Better just to leave it all in retail, just like we 
don't try to break out ball sports or paddle sports or  sliding sports in 
sport=* (soccer, tennis, skiing).

If the distinction offered something distinctive for the data or the mapping, 
that would be great, but it doesn't seem to offer that, so the distinction is 
just more busywork and tag confusion. 
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