[Tagging] How to overcome lack of consensus

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 13:13:30 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> In British English seafood generally refers to shellfish. So a seafood
> shop will be a shop, usually at the seaside, where you buy prawns,
> mussels, cockles and things that are ready to eat, with vinegar, as you
> walk along the front. To tag this a fishmonger would be misleading.
> A fishmonger on the other hand, sells fresh fish that you take home to
> cook. Cases do occur, where a shop does both.

Sounds clear. Unfortunately, the wiki discourages the use of "fishmonger":
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dfishmonger

Separate tags seems correct here but the wiki should link the
alternative, explain the differences like you did and provide a
solution when a shop does both.

Pieren



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