shop=consignment
Locally it means a shop that sells things such as high end used clothes on
consignment. ie the owner of the goods only get paid when the items are sold.
Cheerio John
Philip Barnes wrote on 5/19/2023 12:25 PM:
On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 20:48 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
For start there is a long list of shop values which meaning I do not
understand
(for example, from start of list of exactly such values:
shop=grossery, shop=towing, shop=showroom, shop=salon, shop=garage,
shop=pond, shop=consignment...)
Maybe here I have the advantage of being a native speaker but these
mostly look fairly intuitive to me. Also looking at the names often
helps.
shop=grossery
First glance it looks like a typo of grocery.
There is one in the UK which is a small co-op. So that one should be
shop=convenience. I do not know about the usage in Cameroon but asking
local mappers is preferable to simply changing the tag to =yes. They
could well be foodshops/grocers>
shop=towing
First thought is 'depends on the flavour (or flavor) of English.
Usage is mostly in North American and it looks like breakdown, tow your
vehicle. Names tend to confirm this.
shop=showroom
Where stuff is displayed for sale to be installed seems to be the
thing.
A bit like the Gas Showrooms of my childhood. These were places where
gas appliances were displayed, you paid for them and they were then
fitted by their staff.
shop=salon
Salon is a common name used for a hairdressers shop, so most likely a
mistagging of shop=hairdresser or beauty.
The names of places with those tags tends to confirm my suspicions.
shop=garage
Garage has a few car related meanings. A place where you take your car
to be repaired, fill it with fuel or its a building where you keep your
car.
Tags of the places using this suggest a mix of car stuff. Mostly car
repair. For example https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/153706791 has a
note MOT operator, so car testing/repair
and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/509612586 Chesterfield Concrete
Garages will obviously sell you a concrete pre-fabricated garage to put
in your garden.
shop=pond
This one seems obvious. Immediately thought of a shop selling pond
supplies, pumps, liners, plants, fish for your garden pond.
More commonly tag usage is shop=aquatics.
The main thing if you don't understand a tag
shop=consignment
The word consignment suggests a courier but appears to be a thing in
the US and Canada. Quite a few, and it seems to be what they describe
themselves as.
I am prepared to accept that this is outside my life experience and if
I need to understand it I will ask the local community or a mapper who
has added them. Actually there a two within a few minutes walk of my
cousins in her local high street, so I could ask her.
But changing these to shop=yes helps nobody. As I mentioned shop=pond
would probably have been my first thought if I wanted a pump and liner
for my garden pond.
Phil (trigpoint)
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