[Tagging] Proposing bazaars

[Ben Laenen]

Please make a proposal page first before making the new Tag:highway=bazaar 
page. This looks like a tag which needs quite some discussion first.

Greetings
Ben


pavithran wrote:
> First of all I am using a non native english name called 'bazaar'
> which most of you might have heard from 'cathedral and bazaar' .
> What is bazaar ?
> Shopping streets in developing countries tend to be very narrow and
> are buzzing with activity . They are heavily crowded with less chance
> of trucks,cars,auto rikshaws,motorcycles and bicylces passing through
> them . But nevertheless they do pass through them somehow or the other
> . The traffic is haphazard .
> 
> How to map bazaar ?
>  Mapping shops in bazaars is completely impossible(atleast to show)
> with current zoom level . Its also hard to accurately get a point with
> just a tracker . Being physically present with a specially designed
> POI collector could help map the bazaars which are closely connected .
> 
> How to tag ?
> Well I started a wiki page which could be further expanded .
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbazaar
> 
> Regards,
> Pavithran
>