[Tagging] Re-organizing food "things"? (was: Re: amenity=ice_cream: approved?)

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:49 AM, David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
> How would you call then shop=ice_cream, sneaked in the wiki without any
> discussion or voting or anything else?

Another bad tag.

> On a related note: me and some other people on #osm-it were thinking about
> re-organizing the "food" tagging (take "food" as an example in the following).
> Something like: amenity=food + food=cafe|fast_food|restaurant|... This way,
> we would avoid the amenity "overcrowding", and have a more structured tagging
> scheme.

How about retail=food (or drop the food: retail=restaurant/etc.)? Why
use amenity at all? An area of food places will be landuse=retail, and
a consistent hierarchy will be easier to tag.