[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (shop=direct marketing)

[Paul Allen]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 04:36, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> On Oct 3, 2020, at 4:10 PM, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or maybe something like this?   https://www.facebook.com/TempleBarFarm/
> > I added the farm nearly a year ago.  Held off on adding what they call
> the
> > "farm shop" because it had recently moved from Llwynhelyg Farm across
> > the road, was still settling down (I wasn't sure if they were going to
> keep
> > it going for long) and (most importantly) I couldn't figure out where
> exactly it
> > was.
>
> That facebook page isn't exactly the best venue from which to make a
> determination of what this place is,


The textual content isn't very clear, but one of the images on that page
shows exactly what it is.


> but I get the gist of it, and yes, I'd call it a shop=farm, too.
> Clifford, we, too (Coastal central/northern California, heck, all of
> California as I grew up in southern) call these "farm stands" in local
> vernacular.
>

Yeah, that "shop" is a stand.  And "farm stand" is (according to Wikipedia)
the
common name for them in the US.  But it calls itself a farm shop.  In my
pre-mapping days I've seen a few stands like that around here, but haven't
been
past them in my mapping days toconfirm they're still there.  But I've also
mapped
a few farm shops that are dedicated buildings, or rooms  in a building,
such as
https://goo.gl/maps/UPQZRLzCCgyQdy548

I can see arguments for having shop=farm_stand.  A stand may have
less stock in reserve, you may have to wait longer for somebody to
notice you to serve you (I think some stands around here have an
honesty box, but I could be wrong).  OTOH a shop is a shop, and you
can get small shops with little stock except what is on the shelves, and
there's a single member of staff so you may have to wait for that
person to come back inside from a smoke break.  On the gripping
hand, we make a distinction for kiosks, being the type of small shop
you can't walk inside.

I can see arguments for and against shop=farm_stand.  I can't
make up my mind whether or not I'd support it.  It seems to
be a stand-in for something like shop_size=large|small.

BTW, I think I see why the original poster suggested direct_marketing.
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_shop in the second
paragraph is "Direct sales to the consumer allow farmers to retain a larger
portion of the resulting profit [...]"

-- 
Paul
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