On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moved to talk > > Richard Fairhurst wrote: >>Sent: 24 October 2008 8:25 AM >>To: OSM-Dev list >>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] I've added some new shop values in Map Features >> >>Matt Amos wrote: >> >>> i would call that a shop=convenience. what distinction would you draw >>> between them, ronnie barker notwithstanding? >> >>Ronnie Barker was a local round here... he lived two villages away, >>in a tiny village where David Cameron lives now. >> >>Anyway. >> >>There's not a whole lot of difference. A "general stores" is more an >>old-fashioned thing, open 9-5, early closing Wednesday, and so on. A >>"convenience store" is probably more like a Londis or Spar; doesn't >>sell the ironmongery, probably open later and sells more cheap booze. >>The "general stores" is dying out, sadly. > > This brings us to another question about post offices in the UK. A great > many traditional post offices have closed, with the facility transferred (if > at all) to local convenience stores, newsagents and the like. The post > office local to me had moved three times in the last few years, all within > the same short row of retail outlets as one place closed and the post office > facility was moved to another. Finally in the last few days this local > office has shut for good :-( > > The question is, when a post office is part of another facility, how best to > tag? Perhaps a post_office=yes approach? >
well, amenity=post_office;shop=convenience doesn't actually clash, so as long as they don't add the post office to banks or restaurants we should be OK? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
