>From my experience (in the USA), most WalMarts and KMarts only allocate a >small percentage of their floor space to groceries. The so-called "super >WalMarts" have a full range of groceries; even so, the grocery section takes >up only 20 percent or so of the store.
------Original Message------ From: John Smith Sender: tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org To: OpenStreetMap tagging mailing list ReplyTo: OpenStreetMap tagging mailing list Subject: Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US Sent: May 6, 2010 4:43 AM On 6 May 2010 19:27, Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > In the UK, they'd almost certainly be tagged as supermarkets, since > our stores tend to have one product area dominant (eg groceries). > Department stores are large shops with lots of different departments > selling lots of different things from lots of different counters, but > the staff (and the tills) all under one management. Typically with a > large cosmetics department near the front door. In the US walmart/Kmart etc aren't the same thing as supermarkets, they have less emphasis on groceries... _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
