I am saying that, since the standard meaning of "supermarket" is "grocery store", at least in the USA, tagging such stores as department stores would more accurately reflect the merchandise available than tagging them as supermarkets.
------Original Message------ From: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer To: John Eldredge To: OpenStreetMap tagging mailing list ReplyTo: m...@koppenhoefer.com Subject: Re: [Tagging] tagging for discount stores in US Sent: May 6, 2010 7:47 AM 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. cheers, Martin -- 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
