[Tagging] shop=gun shop=guns shop=weapons shop=firearms

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 21 Jun 2023, at 15:52, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> It is absolutely the wrong thing to say that shop=firearms means "a shop
> that sells whatever the local law means by firearms".   This is a
> general principle in OSM that we define something and then expect
> mappers to use the OSM definition, not local language.


I am not sure I can subscribe to this. Generally our tags are used when the thing meets the local expectations of “such thing”, e.g. an amenity=cafe or amenity=pub in England is probably different from places with such a tag in Germany. Or a shop=bakery in England will not necessarily sell the same kind of bread than one in France.

There is a point where the differences are so big that we decide to introduce a new tag (or subtag), but in a case like the arms shop I believe the most likely answer for OpenStreetMap is actually "a shop that sells whatever the local law means by firearms", just like a highway=motorway is “a highway that the local law means by motorway”.

Cheers Martin