[Tagging] A shop selling fish and seafood

[Morten Kjeldgaard]

On 30/04/2010, at 11.49, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:

> 2010/4/30 Jonathan Bennett <openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk>:
>> On 30/04/2010 09:57, Claudius Henrichs wrote:
>>> I'm trying to get some input on how to tag a shop selling fish and
>>> seafood from some english speaking users.
>>
>> For the sake of sanity I'd use
>>
>>>   shop=fishmonger
>>
>> This describes what the shop sells in general, without getting into
>> whether or not it sells any one particular kind of water-borne  
>> animal.
>> It's certainly the generic term for such a shop in the UK.
>>
>
> I second this - generic and specific enough for this kind of shop.

For non-UK-english speakers "fishmonger" sounds like a swearword. I  
much prefer the easily understandable and nationality neutral  
shop=seafood. There's too much UK-centrism in OSM as it is.

-- Morten