It would be nice if shop=boutique would show an icon with clothes or something similar instead of a dot on the default osm-style. So people would see they made a mistake.
m. On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> wrote: > (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 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
