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</div>It is only splitting hairs if your beer horizon extends no further<br>
than the channel.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>Where I was coming from is that I think that 'real-stuff=yes' is useful as it distinguishes the supplier of 'craft' products from 'industrial' ones.</div>
<div>The problem is that there are lots of different types of stuff - ale, beer, cider, perry - I am sure there are lots more.</div><div><br></div><div>Having a separate key for each one seems a bit over the top, because at one level a user may just want to know if a place just sells Carlsberg and John Smiths, or something more interesting. </div>
<div>Those with more advanced pallets than I may well then be interested if it the interesting thing is ale, beer, fancy Belgian lager things, German wheat beer, hand crushed apple cider etc. etc.</div><div><br></div><div>
Therefore I would prefer to see a more generic type of 'real-stuff' key used which can be 'yes' or 'ale|beer|.....', depending on how keen the mapper is feeling.</div><div><br></div><div>We could then show every outlet with 'real-stuff'!=null on the map and link to its web site. We could also have different icons for different values of 'real-stuff'. An equivalent of tagQueries could identify where philistines have said real-stuff=yes, so a connoisseur can add the extra detail if required.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I thought that 'real ale' had become quite a generic term so could have been used as a synonym for 'real-stuff', but it would be interesting to know what the Germans and Belgians would call their posh beers to see if real-ale is too English - or is that where the proposal for 'real-beer' came from?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Graham.</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Graham Jones<div>Hartlepool, UK.</div><br>