Am 23.06.2010 11:04, ael:
> I have added a couple of Builders' Merchants recently, and tagged them
> as either hardware shops or DIY. Neither are really appropriate.
>
> A quick search on the wiki didn't turn anything up. Is there an existing
> tag?
>
> If not, is "building_supplies" more easily understood internationally than
> native english "builders_merchant" (modulo apostrophe/single/plural)?
>
> Now is that shop=building_supplies, or amenity=building_supplies? Shop
> seems altogether too small.
>    
 From a german-speaking perspective "building_supplies" is more easily 
understood.
I'd definitely go fo "shop" as the key, because it just says "a place 
where something is being sold (regardless of it's size)".

Claudius

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