[Talk-GB] Solarium vs. Sunbed Salon vs. Tanning Salon

[Steve Doerr]

I agree, but of the three I'd plump for 'tanning salon'.

Steve

On 16/07/2014 19:09, SK53 wrote:
> I think all are acceptable. FWIW I've always followed Harry Wood's 
> dictum and lumped these in as shop=beauty (aka Beauty Salon) possibly 
> with a sub-tag beauty=tanning. But given the paucity of usage on 
> taginfo.uk <http://taginfo.uk>, I suspect I haven't been consistent.
>
> OSM Nottingham 
> <http://osm-nottingham.org.uk/?z=11&lon=-1.17884&lat=52.95611&bgl=OSM,1,17&l=chemistshealthhairbeauty&lh=Pharmacies%28dispensing%29;Chemists;Opticans;Mobility;Hairdressers;Tattooists;Alternativemedicine;Other> 
> shows that the shop=beauty tag works sufficiently well to provide a 
> decent consistent mapping. As many solaria/tanning salons offer other 
> 'beauty' treatments I think this is another reason why sub-tagging is 
> the way to go. Tattooists are surpisingly frequent and usually 
> sufficiently distinct that there is no need to stretch the beauty tag 
> further than necessary.
>
> We could certainly revisit the tagged nodes in Nottingham and ensure 
> suitable sub-tagging: tanning & nail salons are preponderant in the 
> mapped elements.
>
> Jerry
>
> PS. Keep up the good work, eliminating literal translations from other 
> languages ought to help everyone in tagging: although dont know that 
> we can do much about the en-gb, en-us split.
>
>
> On 16 July 2014 18:28, Andreas Goss <andig88 at t-online.de 
> <mailto:andig88 at t-online.de>> wrote:
>
>     What is usually used in British English? Or did I maybe even miss
>     something?
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