This tag started out being for a very specific type of shop that sells only one item, motor fuel, in small volume containers. There is a need to keep shops of this type separate from large full-service facilities that sell motor fuel in quantities large enough to refill cars or trucks. lt has now been expanded to include other types of fuel like kerosene and even charcoal. Fine. That's logical and sensible.
But if you want to rework the tagging structure to handle such borderline cases as fuel shops that also sell bread, then I feel that would be defeating the original purpose of this tag. Where will these additions and modifications stop? A logical but not particularly useful extension of that reasoning might involve redefining the entire structure of the shop tag hierarchy by using shop=yes, bread=yes, Crest_brand_toothpaste=yes, fuel:diesel=yes, knitting_supplies=yes, etc. etc. But feel free to do so if you must. On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess that for every categorization, whether you use shop=x or, > sell=x;y;z or sell:x=yes someone will come by and want to divide that > category into two. So x will be split into x' and x'', both > subcategories of x, until we end up with the categories containing > exactly one product :-) > > imho we should stay pragmatic and not to try to add too much detail. > In the end the user will still have to consult the pricelist of the > shop to see whether she wants the specific product for the price > offered by the store and whether the product is available at the > moment of the purchase. > > m > > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:19 PM, joost schouppe > <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There are general stores (shop= ) that sell fuel too ... > > > > Well, that goes for any product and any shop. While your suggestion does > > make sense, we already have a long list of shop types. No one made this > > particular suggestion during the fuel-shop discussion (unless I'm > mistaken). > > > > But it is true that it might have been more logical to only use > shop=[shop > > type] for shops that sell a range of products that people have an idea of > > (e.g. diy, supermarket). Any shop that specializes in just one product > (or > > an unusual combination of things) could then be tagged with shop=yes + > sells > > (or vending:*=*?) to specify what you can buy there. That would have made > > tagging specialty stores a lot easier i guess. You could then add stuff > like > > vending:bread=no to supermarkets if their range excludes something you > would > > expect (in stead of tagging every little thing they sell with a > positive). > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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