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

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> A map icon is what, 32x32 pixels or so? A couple of millimeters on the
> screen. As long as you stick to 20 POI icons, you will be able to select
> icons that are instantly recognizable. Something with a film strip...
> must be a cinema. Once you introduce 100 icons, your map becomes
> unreadable without a legend.


I agree!

I think there should be a limited set of shop icons.
And an infinite set of descriptions of what those shops sell.

And a generic shop icon (or dot) for any shop, even if it's the only one of
it's kind
(e.g. "dog collars").

Then you get to tag both for the rendering AND for the database.
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