[Tagging] Removal of "amenity" from OSM tagging

[Marc Gemis]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:

> amenity=pub -> pub=yes
> shop=travel_agent -> travel_agent=yes
> office=travel_agent -> travel_agent=yes
>

So you want to replace shop=bakery by bakery=yes, shop=butcher with
butcher=yes, etc. ?
This means that you cannot write a query that retrieves all shops in a
town. You would need a list of things for which the value is "yes". But you
cannot summarize the things, because there is no "category" to which they
belong and the list is open-ended.
Don't know whether that is a good idea.

Sometimes the whole category is not what you want. E.g. when you want a map
of restaurants, pubs, hotels (so called Horeca in Belgium, for which there
is an organization), you don't need all amenities or tourism items. Or for
roads you might not want crossings, traffic signs and other stuff under
highway. Dropping the top level tag makes no difference in those cases. But
sometimes you want all things in a category: e.g. buildings or shops .
Dropping the category might not make some problems harder to solve than
just keeping them.

maybe I just misunderstood what you want to change.

regards

m.
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