[OSM-talk] map features: shop items look strange and supermarket should also be moved here?!?

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 21:26:35 BST 2007


On 7/10/07, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at web.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The map features topic "shop"
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Shop looks at least
> a bit strange.
>
> bakers -> bakery (probably this was confused by butcher's shop?)
> butchers -> the only one that's really ok :-)
> candle_stick_makers -> ?!? is this a joke or spam or is this serious?
> Just delete it?

They are from a nursery rhyme (children's song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub-a-dub-dub. Often they are used as a
joke to illustrate that a list has become overly long - which I think
might have been the intention here.

Andy




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