On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:59:35 +0000 Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 22:08, Graeme Fitzpatrick > <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Wow, so much for me naively thinking that caravan was a universal > > word! Should know better by now :-) > > > > Yeah, where are the camels? It's not a proper caravan without camels. > > Have a question about searching though, which was raised previously. > You > > have a place that deals in both (self-propelled) "motorhomes" & also > > (towed) "caravans", & it's tagged as a shop=caravan, with > > caravan=yes & also motorhome=yes (ignoring the exact wording for > > the moment). > > If you search for motorhome, will it be found because the details > include > > motorhome=yes, or would you have to search for caravan, because > > it's tagged as a shop=caravan? (Sorry, I know that's badly worded > > but can't think of a better way of putting it) > > > > Having thought about it some more, and using shop=mobile_home as the > main tag (I know you > don't like it, but I do), then > mobile_home:sells=static_caravan;touring_caravan;motor_home. Yes, > I just mixed UK and US terms there, but it was about the best I could > come up with on a first > attempt (no doubt we will spend weeks arguing over those). Maybe we > ought to have > "caravan" and "static_caravan." If you use "shop=mobile_home" as the top-level tag, it'll almost never be tagged correctly in the United States. In the US, a "shop=mobile_home" is this: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6569665,-117.1913666,3a,75y,178.32h,84.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1su-rt9eFWO6uME-Fp1q55pw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m2!1e4!1e1 not this: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.7544292,-117.3971911,3a,75y,94.69h,83.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_nrIACSV63imX4CAPXUfWg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m2!1e1!1e4 -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
