[Tagging] RFD tag:shop=camera?

John Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Wed Jun 3 15:51:10 UTC 2015


Some businesses that were formerly in the film-developing trade have 
shifted over into producing prints from digital photos. The 
professional-grade color printers produce noticeably better results than 
consumer-grade printers do.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot 
drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.



On June 2, 2015 11:33:08 PM Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> the wiki for shop=photo "A shop dealing with photos or video in any way."
> humm .. does not necessarily sell cameras ... ?
> and 'develop photos'? errr .. that is now a specialist activity given the 
> reduction in film cameras.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dphoto
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> Where as a camera shop does sell cameras... but may not 'deal with photos'
> So someone has a redirect up on shop=camera... and the redirect says 
> 'everything with photos'?
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> Would it not be better to call them what is most common?
> I think there are now more "camera shops" than "Photo shops" .. take a look 
> in a phone book?
>   :-D	Mine has a redirect to "Photographic Equipment" !!  So what do I know?
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> Maybe the wiki page for shop=photo needs to actually include
> cameras?
> "Photographic Equipment"?
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> On 3/06/2015 1:18 PM, Andre Engels wrote:
> > I would say that fits very well with shop=photo, which can be found
> > further down the page under "art, music, hobbies", and to which the
> > link that you created now redirects (because someone in 2011 already
> > thought "shop=camera" would better be "shop=photo")
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> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I've added the tag shop=camera on a node .. reflecting ONE shop I have
> >> mapped.
> >> There are others that I can tag (when I get to them).
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> >> They sell cameras, video or still, tripods, memory cards, filters etc etc.
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> >> Any idea for a better tag?  .. just fishing for ideas at this stage!
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> >> I've placed it in the wiki shop 'electronics' section .. best fit.
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> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Map_Features:shop#Electronics
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