[Tagging] Removal of "amenity" from OSM tagging

[Marc Gemis]

I also forgot to mention that Mapnik also shows all shops that do not have
their own icon with a dot.
You cannot do that when you drop the shop-'category'

regards

m.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are no categorizes in the OSM data, believing that will not be
>> helpfull to you when you try to use OSM data. The current way of
>> sometime using the key as an category isn't working that well. Or I
>> might be wrong I don't write that many stylesheets, and they are the
>> biggest consumers of our data, so take a look at how they handle it.
>>
>
> I'm thinking more for apps/websites like taglocator, openpoimap, (although
> they allow to select specific shops as well) or all the people that reach
> out to help.openstreetmap.org and ask for all the POIs in their town.
> With shop=... they get a long way.
>
>
> regards
>
> m
>
>
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