There's shop=chandler, and waterway=fuel.

On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, 15:48 Nick Allen, <nick.allen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The main usage that I'm aware of is to do with the waterways network in
> the UK. Many narrowboats, and others,  have solid fuel stoves on board, and
> buy from Chandler's or narrowboats that work the waterways supplying gas,
> solid fuel and other consumables.
>
> Mapping the mobile suppliers would be difficult, add they mover on after a
> few days,  but the Chandler's,  and petrol stations that supply the boaters
> could do with a consistent tagging scheme.
>
> Nick
> (Tallguy)
> my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes!
>
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, 13:49 SK53, <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's one <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3727937526/history>
>> fairly close to me (or at least their sign is still there, I've not
>> recently verified that they still exist). We used shop=coal (but see
>> below), which is not far off the more generic shop=fuel.
>>
>> It's over 20 years ago since I bought coal. I ordered it and was
>> delivered, perhaps 1 cwt which lasted the winter. I think that's how most
>> solid fuel will be sold, so most are not really shops but coal merchants
>> yards. I have no idea how these should be tagged, but shop is probably not
>> particularly correct. Similar things will be true for suppliers of LPG or
>> Oil for heating systems in rural areas. In Spain people used to buy butane
>> for cooking (probably still do) largely through Butano SA which became a
>> Repsol subsidiary. I ought to know how this worked as a relative worked for
>> them, but don't. I suspect it's possible to get regular deliveries (just
>> like the old Corona
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_%28soft_drink%29> vans - fizzy pop
>> I hasten to add).
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 21:28, Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Solid fuel; as in a coal merchants. Yes, still a few of those around,
>>> probably many of them in some countries.
>>>
>>> amenity=fuel / fuel=solid perhaps but that will receive a petrol pump on
>>> the map for your efforts.
>>>
>>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7171642306
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Andy
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