[OSM-newbies] Market vs supermarket

[Johannes Huesing]

Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> [Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 07:15:28PM CET]:
> 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 ;-)
> 

Disclaimer: I am not a native speaker.

I would not expect amenity=marketplace having an additional tag
opening_hours=We 09-12 (unless it is really not accessible during the
rest of the week), but I would welcome it with amenity=market.

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