Thanks - now I get the difference - my mistake. What we sometimes call an "Aladdin's Cave" - but I guess 'household' is a more generally understood tag (:>) ...
Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Cartinus [mailto:carti...@xs4all.nl] Sent: 18 January 2009 17:08 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging for general household shop AFAIK a convenience store sells mostly consumables, while the kind of shop Martijn is talking about mostly sells "hardware for mum" (to phrase it politically incorrect). On Sunday 18 January 2009 17:14:47 Mike Harris wrote: > Surely this is shop=convenience - for what Americans (and increasingly > Brits too!) call a convenience store. From what I recall of trips to > NL this is what Blokker etc. is - but perhaps I have misunderstood? > > > Mike Harris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:mve...@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 January 2009 18:01 > To: OSM Talk > Cc: OpenStreetMap NL discussion list > Subject: [OSM-talk] Tagging for general household shop > > Hi all, > > In NL, we have a breed of shops, represented by a small number of > chains (Blokker, Marskramer, may be one or two more) that 'specialise' > in all kinds of general household necessities, ranging from bin liners > to ironing boards and from cutlery to adhesive tape and even small > household appliances. It is definitely not a department store - it's > much smaller and does not have distinguishable departments. It is also > not a specialty store > - they focus on affordable, main stream household products. > > Going by this description, is there a tag that you think covers this? > Otherwise I will introduce shop=household. > > Take care, > -- > martijn van exel -+- mve...@gmail.com -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/ -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
