[OSM-newbies] Market vs supermarket

Xan dxpublica at telefonica.net
Wed Feb 10 15:07:29 GMT 2010


En/na Someoneelse ha escrit:
> Xan wrote:
>
>   
>> What's the difference among that?
>> I'm a newbee yet ;-)
>>     
>
> Purely from an "English English" language perspective, "marketplace" 
> tends to refer to the physical location where traders can gather to sell 
> things; "market" can refer to either that or the event of people 
> gathering together - in some English towns, Tuesday might be "market 
> day" (like your "avui hi ha mercat" example), when traders set up stalls 
> in a town centre to sell things.  The area would be be a marketplace all 
> the time but there's only a market (in the second sense) there once a week.
>
> I believe (but someone may correct me) that in American English "market" 
> is also used to describe a shop that sells goods that you might also buy 
> at a market (such as an "English English" grocer or greengrocer might 
> sell).  I've no idea about the use in other places where versions of 
> English are spoken (Australia, Scotland, South Africa, etc.).
>
> The first two examples that I find of each of these in a local .osm file 
> that I have to hand are these:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/4118123
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/14733611
>
> and they pretty much describe the same sort of thing.  If it was me 
> adding one of these, I'd use "amenity=marketplace" because it doesn't 
> have the secondary American meaning that "market" does.  There's no 
> right or wrong answer though.  It also got discussed here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Marketplace
> and no dissenting voices were raised.
>
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Very impressive answer.  In the wiki there is only marketplace. Perhaps 
anyone (with english as native language) could update it? I edit 
Marketplace wiki page suggesting other tags 
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dmarketplace]. For the 
other hand, in wiki, market redirects to marketplace. Without reading 
your explanation this could go to misinterpretation.

For the other hand, I want to know how to tag the "opening_hours" of the 
market.

I have the situation in which in the same area, we have marketplace and 
a market. A marketplace is in the building and market in the area near 
it. market only is in Saturdays and Mondays.

Do I have to mark as amenity=market;marketplace, opening_hours=....? 
Really it'ds not true. One place could be open everyday but being _only_ 
a market. And in concrete times it become a marketplace. So 
opening_hours could go to a confusion.

Is there any way for doing thaT?

Thanks,
Xan.




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