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

[Brad Neuhauser]

We're kind of circling back to the discussion from 2013. For example, see
this talk page about the failed bread bakery proposal:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposal/bread_bakery

IIRC, the main thing that came out of that was it became clear that
different cultures have very different expectations of what goods they
would find at a "bakery".

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 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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