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<div><br></div><div>Jun 22, 2023, 14:46 by gdt@lexort.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@gmail.com> writes:<br></div><blockquote><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 21 Jun 2023, at 15:52, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is absolutely the wrong thing to say that shop=firearms means "a shop<br></div><div>that sells whatever the local law means by firearms". This is a<br></div><div>general principle in OSM that we define something and then expect<br></div><div>mappers to use the OSM definition, not local language.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure I can subscribe to this. Generally our tags are used<br></div><div>when the thing meets the local expectations of “such thing”, e.g. an<br></div><div>amenity=cafe or amenity=pub in England is probably different from<br></div><div>places with such a tag in Germany. Or a shop=bakery in England will<br></div><div>not necessarily sell the same kind of bread than one in France.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course it won't have the same kind of bread. But it will still be a<br></div><div>shop that sells primarily things that have been baked, pastry and bread.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Suppose in some other country, bakery is a term that means a shop that<br></div><div>primarly sells sausages. We wouldn't say that this should be<br></div><div>amenity=bakery.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">And this is not merely theoretical!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">word "bar" in Polish does not mean the same as in English and has<br></div><div dir="auto">much wider meaning range.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny</a><br></div><div dir="auto">See <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(plac%C3%B3wka_gastronomiczna)">https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(plac%C3%B3wka_gastronomiczna)</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Place selling <br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_mleczny_Kalina,_Poznan,_pomidorowka,_watrobka.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_mleczny_Kalina,_Poznan,_pomidorowka,_watrobka.jpg</a><br></div><div dir="auto">as typical thing is not amenity=bar even if it is locally called "bar".<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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