[Tagging] The "not-shops": industrial, industry, or business

[ael]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 10:39:10PM +0100, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> 1. A fork lift truck hire company (business to business sales).
> 2. A commercial bakery selling to business producing goods in their
> premises and delivering them to the customer.
> 3. A audio equipment company selling and hiring equipment to professional
> broadcast companies.
> 
> In all three cases shop=* doesn't seem right as these are business to
> business sales (b2b) and are often delivered rather than picked up by the
> customer.

The trade tag might cover some of all of those cases. It covers in
particular business-to-business places. It was originally used for
companies like builders' merchants who often also did retail sales.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dtrade

You might extend the subtags (industrial maybe?). However, I agree that
the "shop" in shop=trade may not feel quite right for the places you
describe.

ael