<div dir="ltr"><div><div>This, and already the existing tagging for restaurant cuisine have a basic flaw. They only work in a few countries of the West.<br></div>If you think about it, most likely al restaurants in China would have to have cuisine=chinese, or all grocery stores in Marocco would have to be labelled convenience=north_african or whatever. <br></div><div>Basically you want to label restaurants/shops only if they offer something different from what's the typical local fare.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have no proposal, I am just observing.<br><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 January 2015 at 13:45, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-16 13:29 GMT+01:00 moltonel 3x Combo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moltonel@gmail.com" target="_blank">moltonel@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden">I've recently tagged a shop=convenience, convenience=polish. You'll<br>
find a handfull of other examples of convenience=* clothes=*<br>
hairdresser=* on taginfo.</div></blockquote></div><br><br></span>I suggest to use a more specific key that already tells in its name what it is about, and that allows for tagging several orthogonal properties. The current values for convenience (in total only used 11 times) are: <br><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/convenience#values" target="_blank">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/convenience#values</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>yes<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">russian<br>mall<br>pet<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">polish<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">variety_store<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">african<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">wine;honey;rice;pastery;book<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">so basically there is no system, and the values make it hard if not impossible to understand what is actually tagged.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have found these in taginfo:<br><br>ethnicity (total use 65)<br><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ethnicity" target="_blank">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ethnicity</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">origin (used more often, but has the same problem then "convenience", it is mixed up with different concepts)<br><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/origin#values" target="_blank">http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/origin#values</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br>Martin<br></div></div>
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