[OSM-talk] [RFC] shop = chemist

[Michael Collinson]

At 10:13 AM 12/14/2007, David Earl wrote:
>On 14/12/2007 01:32, Robin Paulson wrote:
> > and we already have pharmacy on the map features page, under amenity
> > (i would guess because it's more important than a shop).
>
>It predated shop=... otherwise I think it might well have been shop=pharmacy
>
>David

In the case of banks and pharmacies, we decided to leave them 
explicitly as amenities.  The idea being that a "normal" map would 
just show amenities and shop= tags would be left for specialist maps 
and search engines.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:Shop#See_Also

Mike
Stockholm