[Tagging] "service" tags in general (for shops)

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 12:33:29 UTC 2018


How does the tag shop=copyshop with service:print=yes/no and
service:press=yes/no, service:self=yes/no  etc. fits into this ?

see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dcopyshop, it's used
about 14.500 times

m.



On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2018-02-27 11:37 GMT+01:00 Fredrik <lists at 0v.no>:
>>
>> On 27/02/2018 09:42, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> > IMHO this is not a good tag, because “printer” can mean a machine or a
>> > person, and amenity doesn’t provide context.
>> >
>> > For the person/profession, “craft=printer” seems better, for the service
>> > I’d use shop=printing_service or sth. similar and less ambiguous. Shop
>> > should be used for businesses offering products or services.
>>
>> shop=printer_service sounds nice. I'm guessing the ink shops also sell
>> paper and I guess "printer" is ambiguous.
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> Actually I proposed shop=printing_service, this makes it clear it is about
> someone printing for you. printer_service sounds like a place you can bring
> your printer for service.
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>
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>> With craft=printer you mean a print shop? Posters, books, etc.
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> no, craft is about a profession, so this is about the workplace of someone
> who has learnt printing as a profession.
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>
>>
>>
>> I see existing shop=printshop (66 uses), craft=printshop ( 10 uses),
>> craft=print_shop (119) and craft=print (6 uses) and there is also 1
>> craft=print_finishers, whatever that is.
>>
>> Maybe these could be merged into something
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>
>
> as long as you don't know for sure what these are, you shouldn't merge them.
> It may take some time, but we are generally confident that it will all work
> out some day ;-)
> While there aren't well defined, documented tags it is clear that different,
> similar tags come up, and some will eventually make it, others will sooner
> or later be merged or tags added (when there are definitions and someone has
> checked on the ground that the objects fall into the category).
>
> If you want to speed up this process, you can prepare a proposal for one or
> more of the features we are talking here.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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