[Tagging] shop=farm shop=greengrocer
Tom Chance
tom at acrewoods.net
Mon Jul 25 12:07:10 BST 2011
I think the two tags have a clear and useful difference, and that
cartographic styles such as the default OSM.org map could always show the
apple symbol for both.
Regards,
Tom
On 8 July 2011 22:42, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:
> 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<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1352771842>
> For an example "Green Grocer" see:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/way/32456726<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32456726>
>
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