[OSM-newbies] Motor Spares Shop

[Richard Welty]

On 1/18/11 9:02 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Paul<news at pointdee.co.uk>  wrote:
>> I was going to add a POI for a local motor accessories shop until I
>> realised that there doesn't seem to be an approved set of tags. The shop
>> in question is not tied to any manufacturer and sells and and all parts
>> for any and all cars. I did see this
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/car but couldn't
>> seem to find anything better
> Is this an automobile engine repair shop?  How about
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dcar_repair
>
> There are also a few uses of shop=auto_parts if a place just does
> sales and not the service / installation.
>
i've been using car_parts to be consistent with car_repair, car_dealer, 
and so
forth, but auto_parts is ok (and what is normally on the front of the store
in the US.)

there is no defined tag i'm aware of, but there are many such stores, so 
there
probably should be one.

richard