[Tagging] Proposed tag shop=wholesale

[Warin]

On 9/05/2015 11:10 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Matthijs Melissen 
> <info at matthijsmelissen.nl <mailto:info at matthijsmelissen.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Note that we also have shop=trade. It would be good to make the
>     difference between both tags clear (of deprecate shop=trade, which I
>     wouldn't oppose).
>
>
> "trade" is an attribute.
>
> Any type of shop (plumbing, electrical, lumber, restaurant supplies) 
> could be trade focused.
> Such shops do not cater to walk in consumer traffic, and may be 
> hostile to customers
> who come in without trade knowledge.
>

Wholesale implies a large quantity of goods, they sell in quantity (the 
quantity may be over some time, say a year).

A 'Trade' shop implies specialist goods and specialist knowledge, not 
things that are present in supermarkets.
An Electronics trade shop will know what a 12 puff capacitor is and have 
several types available, high Q please.
A Plumbers trade shop will have several types of stop cocks available... 
etc.

A trade shop may accept walk in customers .. but give them retail prices 
where as a trade person would get trade price.
Some trades are protected by law and a trade shop may refuse sales based 
on that .. usually safety related.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20150509/a19adab9/attachment.html>