[Tagging] [Talk-us] Feature Proposal - RFC - Marijuana

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 3 January 2014 11:53, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Martijn van Exel
> <martijn at openstreetmap.us> wrote:
>> I would look at how these places are already tagged in, say,
>> Amsterdam. I know, I should know, having lived there for 20 years, but
>> I don't :p

In the Netherlands, mainly amenity=coffee_shop and amenity=coffeeshop
are in use. Probably these names are not internationally usable, so I
would support retagging them to shop=marijuana. There are two issues.
First, advertisement for soft drugs is not allowed in the Netherlands.
I don't know whether a tag shop=marijuana would or would not violate
this law. Second, Dutch-style coffeeshops would rather fit in the
amenity than in the shop key, as consumption on site is allowed.

-- Matthijs