[Tagging] About new landuses and superiority of cascading tag schemes

[ael]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 09:51:28AM +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> 
> In situation like this (both landuse=* and landuse=retail fits) I usually
> use retail for shops open to anybody and landuse=* for specialist ones.not
> open for public,

Perhaps it would be better to use the trade tag?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dtrade

The description says that such places "normally" also serves normal 
consumers, so implies by default open to the public.

You could add a subtag something like "public_sales=no" perhaps (and add
it to that wiki page).

Landuse doesn't seem to fit very well when we have these (general) shop
tags.

ael