On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 00:23, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 11. Nov 2019, at 14:38, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > For better or worse, shop=cafe is documented as selling beverages AND > light meals, and this > is how it is understood in British English. > > > from the description, light meals aren’t a hard requirement, or it could > be seen as satisfied by selling cakes (or ice cream cups in the case of > cuisine =ice_cream): > I suspect that, over the years, people have forced things into cafe because it came closest to what they wanted without having to create a new value and then somebody later documented it. Or people bring different cultural assumptions to the term "cafe." Question. You've had a busy day. No time to eat breakfast or lunch. You're hungry. You're in a strange town. You're looking for somewhere to eat. You look at the map for cafes. Would you be happy if you went to one and it sold only ice cream or only cake? Questions. We already have tags that can distinguish between a shop selling ice cream to take out and a place with tables and seats where you buy ice cream to eat inside (possibly with a takeaway option). What purpose does it serve to collapse these into a single tag? What purpose does it serve to replace one of them with a cafe? Are you willing to fix up all the existing usage? Or is it easier all around to fix up the documentation and live with the fact that some existing places may be mismapped? -- Paul
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