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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jun 22, 2023, 14:46 by gdt at lexort.com:

> Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Of course it won't have the same kind of bread.  But it will still be a
> shop that sells primarily things that have been baked, pastry and bread.
>
> Suppose in some other country, bakery is a term that means a shop that
> primarly sells sausages.  We wouldn't say that this should be
> amenity=bakery.
>
And this is not merely theoretical!

word "bar" in Polish does not mean the same as in English and has
much wider meaning range.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny
See https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(plac%C3%B3wka_gastronomiczna)

Place selling 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_mleczny_Kalina,_Poznan,_pomidorowka,_watrobka.jpg
as typical thing is not amenity=bar even if it is locally called "bar".

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