[Tagging] Synonymous values in the shop key

Simone Saviolo simone.saviolo at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 11:23:27 UTC 2014


2014-08-14 10:40 GMT+02:00 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:

> Hi,
>
> On 08/14/2014 08:09 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> > shop=ice_cream (710, documented but difference between using amenity and
> > shop keys is not documented) -> amenity=ice_cream (4053)
>
> amenity=ice_cream sounds very strange to me. I can't imagine a lot of
> people actually coming up with that themselves - can it be a mass edit
> or an editor preset gone wrong?
>
> I mean, the amenity consists not in there being ice cream, but there
> being a place where you can get ice cream.
>
> That would like tagging amenity=bed for a hotel or amenity=food for a
> restaurant...


Not really. A gelateria is a very different thing from a bar, and it's not
"a shop that sells ice cream". At most you could use "ice cream parlour",
but amenity=ice_cream_parlour seems worse to me than the current tag.

Ciao,

Simone
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