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

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue May 12 09:34:15 UTC 2015


2015-05-11 17:10 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>:

> In my experience, most places that sell pastries would be better tagged as
> bakery. Even if they only sell pastries (ie no bread), they do have to bake
> them, right? :)



I wouldn't tag a place as bakery which doesn't sell bread. This is also in
line with the osm wiki:

"A *bakery* is a shop selling bread. Bakeries normally bake fresh bread on
the premises. Normally also sell pastries, cakes, etc. Often do fresh
sandwiches or baguettes. Often do decorated cakes."
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dbakery



Besides that I am not really happy with the definition there, as it is very
Britain / central European (German) centric. "Baguettes" or "decorated
cakes" are particular kind of baked goods that won't be found all around
the world in bakeries.

The main purpose of a bakery is to make and sell bread.
Whether they also sell pizza, or what kind of bread they sell, whether they
also sell sweets, coca cola, milk, flowers, sunglasses or olive oil is
secondary and should not (IMHO) appear in the main definition.

Cheers,
Martin
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