One distinction sometimes made in American English is between "shop" (meaning a retail business) and "storefront" (the location in which such a business is typically located, particularly if it is within a larger building). For example, if a professional office is located among a group of stores in a shared building, it is referred to as a storefront office.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] Vacant shop tagging... >From :mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com Date :Thu Aug 19 07:53:11 America/Chicago 2010 2010/8/19 Craig Wallace <craig...@fastmail.fm>: >> IMHO a shop is a shop because it is officially commercial space (and >> not residential), it has a separate entrance (usually from the >> street), it has appropriate windows, etc. Of course there might be >> exceptions, but I think you get it. > > I disagree. A shop is by definition a place selling products or services. > And if its empty its not doing that. > Yes, it might still be commercial space, so within an area of landuse=retail > or whatever, but its not a shop. IMHO it is a shop, but maybe this is language dependant. Would you apply the same criteria to an appartment, i.e. an appartment where noboby lives is not an appartment? >>> ie use a separate namespace, so tag it something like disused:shop=yes >>> Then it can be easily ignored by applications that just want to show >>> currently existing shops, or rendered differently etc. >> >> that's a good idea as well, and very versatile. > > Yes, plus it would allow tagging other disused things. eg disused:amenity= > for things like cafes, pubs, postboxes, phoneboxes etc, which I think would > be useful. > Or you could tag what sort of disused shop it is (or was). eg > disused:shop=supermarket or whatever. +1 cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
