<p dir="ltr">> like:<br>
> amenity=hairdresser<br>
> name=Scalp<br>
> culture=punk<br>
> ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Exactly, I provided other examples in my previous message such as culture=country, culture=grunge, culture=shinto.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Using several keys ethnicity=* + nationality=* + subculture=* all together would be unambiguous but I think culture=* does a good job of merging all keys.<br>
I am not sure ethnicity=* alone can cover all the cases such as your hairdresser ethnicity=punk.<br>
I think you know it and choose to discard punk / grunge / country / shinto / goth / kawaii tagging? ;)<br>
But even with nationalities it sounds strange, eg. ethnicity=canadian / irish / italian / ...<br>
Furthermore I do not have examples at the moment but *maybe* ethnicity is more connoted and may lead to awkward tagging for some groups.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">> but culture=* is already used. 84 uses</p>
<p dir="ltr">It seems like the remnants of a old proposal [1].<br>
So it looks to me as a bunch of tagging errors where culture=X should be replaced by amenity=X or tourism=X or any appropriate key=X.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">> Based on the current uses and the fact that culture may have several<br>
> meanings, ethnicity=* seams to me the best choice</p>
<p dir="ltr">As far as I understand culture=* is available as a tagging option, the current use is irrelevant.<br>
cuisine=* allows to agglomerate two concepts: food ethnicity + food type. This is outlined [2] and detailed [3] in the wiki.<br>
This is why ethnicity=* is not a valid key to - in the unlikely event that we wanted to - replace all the current uses of cuisine=*.<br>
And I am trying to find the equivalent of cuisine=* for other types of amenities/shops.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I appreciate the fact that 'culture' may have several meanings though.<br>
I would still consider key culture=* as my preferred option. Within the context of shops and with the associated values related to nationalities and the like, the meaning of culture=* is rather unmistakable.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">> with values as similar as possible to cuisine=*.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Whatever the choice I agree that values should be shared with cuisine=* as much as possible.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/culture">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/culture</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Drestaurant">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Drestaurant</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cuisine">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cuisine</a></p>