[Talk-GB] Car boot sale sites

[Edward Catmur]

Isn't a car boot sale a type of market? Perhaps add a sub-tag to
amenity=marketplace?

My impression is that while a car boot sale has more of an "amateur" ethos
to it, there's considerable overlap.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dmarketplace

On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 14:51, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just went to add a bootsale site that had moved (when I found the
> old site wasn't mapped), and didn't know how to tag it. I found
> nothing in the wiki, so then checked taginfo and most occurrences of
> "boot sale" are in names, so I picked a few to see what combinations
> they used. There is a considerable mixture.
>
> I have found
> landuse=commercial
> landuse=farmland
> tourism=attraction
> shop=variety_store
> and that was only checking about four different examples. One of
> those also used amenity=car_boot_sale on the same site.
>
> As the site I was trying to add was farmland previously I considered
> landuse=farmland surface=grass, but is it still farmland if set
> aside for car boots? I thought maybe not so went for landuse=grass
> for now, and for good measure added amenity=car_boot_sale the name
> of the boot sale and a link to their Facebook page. I may yet edit
> it in JOSM to add opening hours.
>
> But I thought I'd ask here in case we could come up with a more
> consistent set of tags. There are a number of local sites I could
> then make consistent. But I guess not all are on grassed (former)
> farmland like they are around me, so perhaps landuse shouldn't be
> part of the solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
> (User: EdLoach)
>
>
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