<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>sent from a phone</div><div><br>On 2. Sep 2017, at 10:58, Rafael Avila Coya <<a href="mailto:ravilacoya@gmail.com">ravilacoya@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>As for shop=boutique, it's crystal clear that it's making more harm than good. You only have to do an overpass over different cities in francophone Africa and you will see the mess...</div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>just because a tag isn't used as it should in a certain area of the world doesn't mean the tag doesn't work. You could say (or have said) the same for highway=track</div><div>Looking at areas with relatively recent/ still kind of immature mapping (few active on the ground mappers, etc.) also doesn't prove anything. Once a problem is detected you can work to solve it, e.g. write to the individual mappers from your overpass query results above, improve the french wiki: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Tag:shop%3Dboutique">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Tag:shop%3Dboutique</a> (btw: it doesn't explicitly say it is limited to clothes, neither in French nor in English), etc.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Martin </div></body></html>