On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 08:04:35AM +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > shop=agrarian is terrible, I agree. Is this a shop that caters to > "agrarians" or does it sell "agrarians"? > > Nor do I like shop=trade, trade=agricultural_supplies. I don't think of > farming or agriculture as a trade similar to that practiced by a plumber or > electrician, but maybe that's only me.
It was originally invented for the "building trade", and then got generalised. In the UK, at least, such shops usually use the term "trade" which is where it came from. I agree that it is not the most natural word to use for farming. But the specialist farm "shops", again in the UK, at least, treat their professional farmer clients, in a similar way offering accounts, credit, bulk discounts and the like. So trade has just the same semantics, so it would be redundant to invent another tag. Not sure what a more general tag would look like. As pointed out earlier, the same objection could be raised to "shop", which isn't the first word that comes to mind for the large establishments, but again shop has come to mean "somewhere that sells things/services". Just observations and history. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
