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

[Greg Troxel]

On June 23, 2023 1:50:58 PM UTC, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>Am Do., 22. Juni 2023 um 14:41 Uhr schrieb Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com>:
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>> 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.
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>this is why we have agreed to use English words. A "bakery" in English is a
>place that primarily sells bread (and other baked stuff, at least
>generally), so if some other language used the same letters for a word
>"bakery" which had a different meaning, it could not be the one intended in
>OSM because we use English.

English varies by country and sometimes we can't understand each other.  Changing semantics by regional English is no more reasonable than changing by other language word collisions.   My point is that a tag defines a semantic concept and that we should strive to have it mean that concept everywhere.   That is the point, so that data consumers can use it.