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<div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 25, 2019, 4:11 PM by osm@westnordost.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Well, there is a long wp article about it with a clear description for a start.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">It seems to be quite useful, thanks (I usually skip Wikipedia because 1:1 matches<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">with osm tags are really rare).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I updated wiki page again ending with following changes:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Ashop%3Dgeneral&type=revision&diff=1825111&oldid=1806002">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Ashop%3Dgeneral&type=revision&diff=1825115&oldid=1806002</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">My conclusion is that this is an old shop type, currently getting rare but there are still some valid uses<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">but many cases would benefit from retagging to more popular shop values<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(where shop=convenience/supermarket/country_store describes it well).<br></div> </body>
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