On 24 August 2010 09:53, Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > n Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de>wrote: > >> It goes like >> >> A place producing or processing customised goods. >> >> > We need a better definition. A baker or a restaurant could also belong to > that category but I still prefer 'shop' for baker and 'amenity' for > restaurant.. > > It's interesting that the different languages on the wiki have different lists, because "craft" has quite different meanings across countries.
These days in the UK we normally talk of "arts and crafts", meaning the work of artisans who are neither members of the high-art world nor mass producing consumer products. You tend to find their work in funny little markets and at country fairs. It is very unusual to talk of gardeners, bakers or electricians as practising a craft unless they are selling curious products in an artisan market. In Germany I believe that "craft" has a much wider meaning. The definition given by Peter on the wiki isn't easy to apply consistently. For example, almost all bakeries in the UK will produce *some* produce in their shop; some are national chains and take deliveries from afar, others are part of small local consortia and do produce their own goods but not in the shop itself. Are they a craft or a shop? Another approach may be to continue marking all of those features as shops but including some additional tagging to denote that it is an artisan / craft? Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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