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

Ulf Lamping ulf.lamping at web.de
Tue Jul 10 22:06:05 BST 2007


Andy Allan schrieb:
> 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.
>
Hmmm, I might be a bit humourless, but partly putting a nursery rhyme 
into a reference page is not my kind of humour ;-)

Anyway, so I'll change the shop topic into:

bakery
butchers (is this the common term then?)
supermarket

and remove supermarket from amenity.

Regards, ULFL




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