Same with my comment - I don't really have a stake in the outcome of this
discussion. I was merely making an observation that reflects my American
point of view.

>"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".

Agreed, the shop tag is already being stretched to the limit IMO; shop=mall
comes to mind immediately

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:08 PM, ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:03:57AM -0400, Mark Bradley wrote:
> > Thanks for all the replies.  It seems there are two already-established
> tagging schemes for what I want to map.  They are
> >
> >
> >
> > shop=agrarian
> >
> > or
> >
> > shop=trade
> > trade=agricultural_supplies
>
> After my last post, I realise that the trade tag has extra information:
> professionals are offered additional services such as accounts,
> credit, special tax arranagements (at least in some countries), bulk
> discounts and the like.
>
> But checking the wiki I see all those agrarian subtags. I guess
> agricultural_supplies=* could be used to add the same information to the
> shop=trade version.
>
> Again, just an observation.
>
> ael
>
>
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