[OSM-newbies] Market vs supermarket

Sebastian Klein bastikln at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 9 18:43:36 GMT 2010


Xan wrote:
> En/na Someoneelse ha escrit:
>> For what it's worth there aren't too many uses of it but both 
>> amenity=market and amenity=marketplace are used:
>>
>> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/marketplace
>> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/market
>>
>> Also:
>> http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/public_market
>>
>> among others.
>>   
> What's the difference among that?
> I'm a newbee yet ;-)

I guess there are no real differences, they all describe basically the 
same thing: a public market place. :)

amenity=marketplace is documented in the wiki and it is used more often 
than the other variants. So it's more or less the standard way to tag it 
and I would just use it this way.

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Sebastian





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