[Tagging] shop=confectionery / pastry / candy / sweets

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

I believe there is some overlap between the shop values

confectionery
pastry
candy
sweets

shop=confectionery is used much more often than the other 3 (10K vs. 300
vs. 100 vs. 50) and is likely covering all of these, but is quite generic.
For the very reason it can be used for both: pastry (baker's confections)
and candy (sugar confections), it is often less useful IMHO (at least
without subtag, which is currently not documented). "often", because in
some countries these tend to be distinct shops, but in other contexts there
might be shops that are offering both kind.

If you are looking for sugar confections or baker's confections, finding a
shop that only sells the other variant of confections will not be helpful
but rather a big annoyance.

>From previous discussions on this matter I believe to remember that
"pastry" is actually not covering the entire subset of baker's confections,
so the term might be less appropriate.

"sweets" is not very specific neither, is not defined in the wiki and can
maybe cover both, candy and pastry, or might be a synonym for candy/sugar
confections (I am not sure about this, would be nice to hear what the
natives say). It also doesn't seem to add any additional information with
respect to confectionery, so I would suggest to deprecate its use
completely.

I think we could deal with this situation in several ways:

a) use confectionery, pastry and candy as competing top-level tags and
suggest to be the most specific where possible (i.e. aim to have only mixed
shops tagged with the generic confectionery tag and recommend the more
specific pastry and candy tags where applicable).

b) recommend to only use confectionery as the main top level tag and use
subtags like bakers_confectionery=yes and/or sugar_confectionery=yes to
make the distinction

c) your suggestion here

Personally I favor b). What do you think?

Cheers,
Martin

For reference see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dconfectionery
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