On 5/6/10 8:47 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/6 John F. Eldredge<j...@jfeldredge.com>: > >> 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. >> > > is this a proposal for est_floorspace:grocery=0.2 or for > shop=supermarket, super=yes? If you think that shop=supermarket isn't > sufficient I suggest to use additional tags rather than change or > detailize (?) the definition of the main tag. > i don't think that it would occur to a US based mapper to tag these discount stores as supermarkets, it's not intuitive to us and the wiki description of the tags wouldn't lead us there. department_store or general would be much more likely to be used (i've used department_store to date).
most of these stores devote no more than 5 or 10% of their floorspace to food, and are otherwise inexpensive department stores, and i'm certainly having trouble seeing how 10% of their stock overrides the other 90% when it comes to tagging. richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
