Joseph Back in January when I created shop=caravan & the other versions, there was *very* extensive discussion on here regarding the various options & combinations of names.
You may like to find a comfortable seat, pour yourself either a hot coffee or a cold beer, & have a read of https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-January/041883.html :-) Thanks Graeme On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 11:44, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are places in the USA where you can buy a "mobile home" which is > meant to be semi-permanently installed in one place, unlike an "RV" > which is meant for camping in different places. I believe these are > called "static caravans" in Britain, and there is a tag > "building=static_caravan" for the installed feature, also known > colloquially as a "trailer" (USA), "caravan" (Britain), or > "manufactured home" (only really used in advertising by the industry). > > In the USA small ones are "single-wide" if they can be moved in 1 > piece, but you can get a "double-wide" or "triple-wide" manufactured > house, which is moved in 2 or 3 pieces and has to be reassembled at > the site where it is installed. These bigger ones usually get a > foundation, but the smaller cheap ones are often left up on wheels or > concrete blocks. > > Right now there is a page documenting "shop=mobile_home" which is used > only 14 times - > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dmobile_home > > But is seems like this isn't the right terminology in British English. > What would be better? shop=static_caravan perhaps? > > - Joseph Eisenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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