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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jun 25, 2023, 01:13 by gdt at lexort.com:

> Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 24 Jun 2023, at 00:29, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> But if we focus too pedantically on legal status at the expense of
>>> common sense, then we've reinvented designation=*, and mappers and
>>> data consumers have to find yet another key to express what could've
>>> been in highway=*.
>>>
>>
>> oh yes, absolutely, if legal status and common sense/reality are not congruent we should record both.
>>
> (...)
>
> But none of that matters to OSM; if there is a shop that is selling
> cannabis, then it is tagged as such, regardless of whether it is a
> federal crime but not a state crime, a crime under neither legal regime,
> or a crime under both.  And it doesn't matter exactly how either regime
> defines what is or is not unlawful.
>
> So I find the attention to legal definitions in the present discussion
> bizarre.
>
That is a different situation. 

shop=medical_cannabis would be analogous to shop=firearms
as it is a legal term (if I understood it right) with variety of differences
across places and wild changes in its definition over time, and
therefore a poor terms to use in OSM (like shop=firearms apparently)
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