On 17 September 2010 00:40, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's somewhere between hobby and industrial... > > It is not industrial, because it operates at a much smaller scale and > there is less division of labour. > > it's not hobby, because they are all professionals, what is the > opposite of hobby, but you can do all this stuff as hobby as well (and > then it wouldn't be "craft" but hobby). It is something archaic, > referring to the middleages and to guilds. We actually still have the > guilds (kind of) in Germany. It has to do with traditions, permission > to do work in certain regulated professions, and so on. Basically they > control the formation/education of people in their field of operation > and used to control the market. Since not so long ago this changed a > bit due to the European Community, but there is still a lot of > reference to old traditions, especially in certain professions like > carpentry (see these pictures to get an impression): > http://www.freiburg-schwarzwald.de/fotos09jan/walz090203.jpg > http://www.nwzonline.de/nwz-bilder/art_gr/2009/05/28/_heprod_images_fotos_1_12_16_20090528_bild_zimmermann_neu.jpg > http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00612/cn_beckstein_trink2_612612p.jpg > http://www.zimmerei-stefan-kraft.de/Fotos/Richtfest.jpg > http://www.bbs-burgdorf-lehrte.de/aktuelles/62/9.jpg > http://www.baeckerei-alber.at/team/team_baecker.jpg
So in other words, craft is somewhere between hobby and industrial... _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
