Highway=road and building=yes are used when adding features based on satellite imagery.
If you know that a shop sells “food”, you can also say if it sells fresh food or nonperishables or prepared food, no? On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:42 PM Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl> wrote: > W dniu 11.10.2018 o 05:08, John Willis pisze: > > the definition of shop=food is way way way to vague to have meaning. > > it needs to be much narrower. > > > > it is like shop=goods. we don’t need that either. > > It's much more precise than shop=yes (which is used a lot) and I know > what food is, even if I don't know shop type details. > > We also use building=yes and highway=road and we need them. They are > very useful to not cheat that a mapper knows more than she really does. > It's always better to have more precise data, but declining more general > categories is not a way to achieve this, it's just sweeping problem > under the rug. > > -- > "Excuse me, I have some growing up to do" [P. Gabriel] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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