Richard Fairhurst schrieb: > Ulf Lamping wrote: > >> 204 books (in obvious contrary to amenity=library) > > A library lends books, a bookshop sells them.
As I said: obviously :-) > >> 292 florist (BTW: in future, garden_centre seems to become the >> value for >> "potted flower shops") > > Generally, in the UK, a florist will sell you a bunch of flowers to > give to your wife/girlfriend/mistress; a garden centre will sell you > flowers to plant in your garden. > Same here germany. Not to forget: not only in your garden, to place a potted flower at your window sill is an option. Even geeks do that sometimes ;-) >> I've added those, where I had a good understanding. There are still >> some >> tags where I'm still curious about, e.g. what is shop=general? > > A "general stores" is grocery+other stuff - so basic foodstuffs, some > ironmongery (=DIY), some stationery, and so on. It's an old-fashioned > UK shop that is sadly dying out in the age of the supermarket. > Oh, you know, we're now in the age of the internet, the age of the supermarket is already long time ago ;-) To site map features about convenience: "a small local store usually selling a small selection of food items plus things like simple first aid, household, stationary and car items" So to me it seems, that convenience and general is used interchangeably for the same thing? Regards, ULFL P.S: By mistake I've send my initial post to dev http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-October/012256.html To be short, I've derived some shop values from tagwatch and added: beverages books car_repair florist furniture hairdresser mall to the shop section of map features http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Shop _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
