Javbw
> On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > AFAIK, Ace Hardware stores do not carry a wide enough assortment of items to > qualify. Lowes and Home Depot do. +1 A hardware store sells tools and consumables (screws, glue, paint, etc) as the main focus of the store. A DIY store sells you the thing - or the materials to make the thing, and the consumables and the tools. A hardware store sells a power saw, the blades, screws and sandpaper. A DIY store sells you the 200 pieces of lumber, concrete, and buckets of sealant to make a deck. In Japan, the big chain "Home Depots" - Joyful Honda - have DIY put on the side of the buildings. Smaller shops dedicated to tools - the proverbial hardware shops - sell hand and power tools, specialty consumables (tapes, screws, bolts, etc) and other small, pricey supplies a person needs. They sell the tools to install a toilet - washers and gaskets to fix a toilet - but not the actual toilets, Sheetrock, lumber, tile, and piping to actually make a bathroom. I visit both, both in the US and Japan. The supermarket vs convenience store comparison is not comparable - it is about tools and consumables to make the food, not the food itself. A convenience store sells finished food. A super market sells finished food and ingredients. To compare hardware vs DIY stores: A "hardware" store sells stoves, pans and knives and spices, and some wax paper and whatnot. A "DIY store" sells the stoves, the pans, the spices - and 10 lb bags of sugar, and 30kg of rice, and 5 gallon buckets of tomato paste. As long as we can map the *focus* of the store, this should be an easy distinction to make. But it might entail mapping a bunch of "home stores" as DIY. This will also limit hardware stores, but his is correct - as "hardware" and "tools" are usually just sections in a DIY store and all the hardware chain shops closed. Javbw. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
