Am 30.08.2017 um 10:01 schrieb Marc Gemis: > It would be nice if shop=boutique would show an icon with clothes or > something similar instead of a dot on the default osm-style. So people > would see they made a mistake.
Not only that. Any translations and the like should (naturally) give a name/description in the language that is appropriate. With other words using "boutique" as the French translation of shop=boutique would be a bad idea and I'm wondering if we have this problem with some of the editors, or if there are other reasons why there is so much confusion,. Simon > > m. > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> wrote: >> (late message because antispam rejected before) >> >> On 2017-08-29 19:27, Severin Menard wrote: >>> In French-speaking African countries, this generic word is massively >>> used for the most generic shop by far: a small convenience store, >>> selling food and non food items all over the walls, up to the >>> ceiling, where you ask at a desk what you want. This makes it a kind >>> of kiosk, even if many are not separate shops but taking one part of >>> the basement of a building. And they are not chic at all. And they >>> are very, very numerous: in a large city you find one every 50 or 100 >>> meters. For sure there are more African boutiques in the world than >>> the boutiques of hand-made fashion clothes. Of course, new African >>> contributors in these countries logically use shop=boutique for their >>> own cultural reality so some streets in Africa are full of >>> false-cognates. >> Here is what Séverin is talking about: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/rkV >> I guarantee that every single one of these shop=boutique in the Dakar >> Peninsula are these shop=(convenience|kiosk) that most French-speaking >> West-Africans name "boutique". We regularly correct them but they >> sprout even faster - so much that it may indeed be argued that we >> should go with the flow. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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