2008/12/21 D Tucny <d...@tucny.com>: > > What makes an optician's a shop whereas a dentist is an amenity? NHS? > Opticians selling sunglasses? >
Because an opticians tend's to look a shop, and I can go in, buy something (new frame, glasses case, cleaning materials) without an appointment or seeing an optician at all? I've never seen a dentists place that looked like a shop. 2008/12/21 Dermot McNally <derm...@gmail.com>: > > It's "doctors" that puzzles me. Why not "doctor"? I know that you are > reporting reality here, but maybe we have a chance now to document a > more consistent set of tags and perhaps the (possibly few) mappers > already using "doctors" would be prepared to retag. It's a shortened form of "doctor's (surgery/office)". It's common English usage, so I can see why people would start using it. Whether or not it should be encouraged, however is another question. I think if we are going to get serious about POI's we need to come up with a tagging scheme for things that are businesses but are not shops. Just thinking about things in the immediate vicinity of where I work, there is a business park (named, and known by the name), a state tax office, several office buildings, various other government departments. I'm not sure amenity or shop really works for any of them. Stephen _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
