Please read e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_shop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutique
Does your reply mean we can remove the word boutique from the English dictionary ? On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02-Sep-17 04:31 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: >> >> Is ignoring what the community did so far, a guideline ? People have >> used the tag boutique. So why cannot we take this practice and use >> that as the guideline ? Why change the currently used tags, causing a >> cost of all involved parties ? >> >> >> >> This is a serious question. I want to understand why people think the >> about differences are ok, but clothes and boutique not. > > > I lack the understanding of what is meant by 'boutique' and 'fashion'. > > I think the terms could be used for a very wide variety of features. > > The tag shop=cloths I understand and don't see any confusion over it. > > If 'fashion' simply means cloths with some added parameters then I would > think it should be a sub tag. The same for 'boutique'. > > If they mean something different from cloths .. then what are they? And I > don't want terms like - more expensive, finer materials, better design - > these are either subjective and/or sub tags. > > Fuel stations that do not sell diesel are not given a separate main tag - > they get a sub tag. > And yes some things in OSM have been given main tags where, with more > organisation, they could have been better with sub tags. 'Path' and footpath > spring to mind. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
