[Tagging] shop=farm shop=greengrocer

Bryce Nesbitt bryce2 at obviously.com
Fri Jul 8 22:42:58 BST 2011


I'm interested in propsing an icon for "shop=farm", for highlighting 
roadside farm stands (this is a fun travel activity, as such farm stands 
are often not listed in the Yellow pages or conventional maps).

I've thought a single apple is a reasonable symbol for this.

However, the existing greengrocer tag has a single apple in potlatch2 
(no rendering in mapnik or osamarender). What would people think of 
merging the greengrocer and farm tags into one, then using the apple as 
the symbol?

I see a lot of overlap between the two tags.  If there is any 
distinction between the two tags it is usually clear in context: in the 
middle of a city it is more like a "greengrocer" , and out in a rural 
area it is more like a "farm stand".  Many rural farm stands these days 
sell bananas and exotic, so that hardly distinguishes the two.

For an example farm stand see:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1352771842
For an example "Green Grocer" see:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32456726




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