That's not a flaw - you've already given the solution in your own email: > Basically you want to label restaurants/shops only if they offer something > different from what's the typical local fare.
2015-01-16 13:23 GMT+00:00 Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com>: > This, and already the existing tagging for restaurant cuisine have a basic > flaw. They only work in a few countries of the West. > If you think about it, most likely al restaurants in China would have to > have cuisine=chinese, or all grocery stores in Marocco would have to be > labelled convenience=north_african or whatever. > Basically you want to label restaurants/shops only if they offer something > different from what's the typical local fare. > > I have no proposal, I am just observing. > > > > On 16 January 2015 at 13:45, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> 2015-01-16 13:29 GMT+01:00 moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> I've recently tagged a shop=convenience, convenience=polish. You'll >>> find a handfull of other examples of convenience=* clothes=* >>> hairdresser=* on taginfo. >> >> >> >> I suggest to use a more specific key that already tells in its name what >> it is about, and that allows for tagging several orthogonal properties. The >> current values for convenience (in total only used 11 times) are: >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/convenience#values >> >> yes >> russian >> mall >> pet >> polish >> variety_store >> african >> wine;honey;rice;pastery;book >> >> so basically there is no system, and the values make it hard if not >> impossible to understand what is actually tagged. >> >> I have found these in taginfo: >> >> ethnicity (total use 65) >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ethnicity >> >> origin (used more often, but has the same problem then "convenience", it >> is mixed up with different concepts) >> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/origin#values >> >> cheers, >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
