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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 25, 2019, 9:57 PM by phil@trigpoint.me.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 13:57 -0400, Kevin Kenny wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:44 AM Mateusz Konieczny<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> My conclusion is that this is an old shop type, currently getting<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> 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<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> values<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> (where shop=convenience/supermarket/country_store describes it<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> well).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">General stores, while not as common as they once were, still exist in<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">the rural communities that I visit - so please don't deprecate the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">tag!<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">They often function as grocery stores, but also will generally offer<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">tools and hardware, clothing, home goods, camping supplies, bait and<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">tackle, dry goods, and paper goods - pretty much a little bit of<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">everything, albeit with a more limited selection than you'd find at a<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">store in a larger town. The wide offering of general merchandise<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">distinguishes them from 'supermarket'. The small size and relatively<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">limited selection distinguish them from supermarket (also, not all<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">general stores sell perishable food). They're a lot more than a<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">convenience_store; they're typically the main or only store in the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">village. They're surely not a variety_store, and are often overpriced<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">because many nowadays cater to tourists. (The villagers might drive<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">the nearest sizable towm to shop.)<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Much the same in the UK, as Kevin says please do not depreciate this<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">tag. It is never going to have the level of usage that city based tags<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">get.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">As mentioned, based on feedback here, I amended the OSM wiki page<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">to explain that there is some difference and that there are shops that require this <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">shop type.<br></div> </body>
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