No. Sometimes, all I know about a store is what it says on the sign out front. If the store calls itself "Empire Foods", it's a good bet it sells food.
-- Mark On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:04:39 +0900 Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Highway=road and building=yes are used when adding features based on > satellite imagery. > > If you know that a shop sells “food”, you can also say if it sells > fresh food or nonperishables or prepared food, no? > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:42 PM Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl> wrote: > > > W dniu 11.10.2018 o 05:08, John Willis pisze: > > > the definition of shop=food is way way way to vague to have > > > meaning. it needs to be much narrower. > > > > > > it is like shop=goods. we don’t need that either. > > > > It's much more precise than shop=yes (which is used a lot) and I > > know what food is, even if I don't know shop type details. > > > > We also use building=yes and highway=road and we need them. They are > > very useful to not cheat that a mapper knows more than she really > > does. It's always better to have more precise data, but declining > > more general categories is not a way to achieve this, it's just > > sweeping problem under the rug. > > > > -- > > "Excuse me, I have some growing up to do" [P. Gabriel] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
