[OSM-newbies] Motor Spares Shop

[Paul]

 On 18/01/11 14:08, Richard Welty wrote:
> 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

Thanks to both for replying. This shop only sells spares and does not do
service/installation so unless I hear any objections in the next couple
of days I'll go with car_parts

Cheers

Paul