[Tagging] Shop values review

[ael]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:59:28PM +0200, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> On 18 October 2015 at 12:55, ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > But really it was invented as a way to tag clear groups of places that
> > had no obvious existing tags
> 
> Do you have a source for that? (Not questioning you, just curious to
> read the original discussion.)

Here is the first message : see the rest of the thread.
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-June/002682.html

I see that it was John Smith who first suggested using a sub-tag.

ael