(late message because antispam rejected before) On 2017-08-29 19:27, Severin Menard wrote: > > In French-speaking African countries, this generic word is massively > used for the most generic shop by far: a small convenience store, > selling food and non food items all over the walls, up to the > ceiling, where you ask at a desk what you want. This makes it a kind > of kiosk, even if many are not separate shops but taking one part of > the basement of a building. And they are not chic at all. And they > are very, very numerous: in a large city you find one every 50 or 100 > meters. For sure there are more African boutiques in the world than > the boutiques of hand-made fashion clothes. Of course, new African > contributors in these countries logically use shop=boutique for their > own cultural reality so some streets in Africa are full of > false-cognates.
Here is what Séverin is talking about: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/rkV I guarantee that every single one of these shop=boutique in the Dakar Peninsula are these shop=(convenience|kiosk) that most French-speaking West-Africans name "boutique". We regularly correct them but they sprout even faster - so much that it may indeed be argued that we should go with the flow. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
