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

[Greg Troxel]

Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> writes:

> I for one support the drawing of hyperblobs.

Thanks; I was pretty sure I was not alone.

> If we look at our existing repertoire of shop=* values, it's pretty
> clear that we aim for plain language when possible, although we do
> sometimes fall short.
>
> shop=curtain, not shop=window_treatment
> shop=doityourself, not shop=building_material_and_supplies
> shop=furniture, not shop=home_furnishings
> shop=gift, not shop=souvenir or shop=novelty
> shop=haberdashery, not shop=needlework_goods
> shop=second_hand, not shop=used_merchandise
> shop=shoes, not shop=footwear
>
> Industry classification schemes are a better source of inspiration for
> POI classification than individual laws. Unfortunately, the wiki's
> NACE (Europe) [1] and NAICS (North America) [2] correspondence tables
> reveal a lot of gaps in our tagging schemes, but they do give a sense
> of which terms would be well-recognized and maybe how to classify
> them. For what it's worth, the Sporting Goods Retailers subindustry in
> NAICS includes "gun shops". [3]
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:NACE
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NAICS
> [3] https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=gun+shop&year=2022&details=459110

I should be clear that I think we have settled on "shop=gun" and not to
care about e.g. air rifles being different.  I think that's a good
outcome.   My point was just that people seem to be overly fixated on
law in a way that is not similar to how everything else is approached.

Do people realize that in my state, and likely everywhere else, that you
need a special license to sell milk/dairy?  And that there are likely
pages of regulations that define exactly what that means, and how it
must be pasteurzied?  But OSM doesn't care; it's just a food item, and
that's how it should be.