[OSM-talk] Confusion about baker(')s and butcher(')s

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

I'm just playing around with extracting POIs from the planet file. I'm 
struggling with various tags for shops. According to the map features 
page in the wiki, there's a dedicated shop key:
shop=bakery
shop=butcher
shop=chandler
shop=supermarket

In the planet file, I also find them as amenities. Should those be 
changed to "shop" or should we leave them as they are?

What confuses even more are bakers and butchers. As the bakery exists, a 
non native speaker would expect that butchery would be the correct 
counterpart. But I read that this only is known to the southern 
hemisphere, e.g. australia. In GB and the US, "Butcher's shop" or in 
short "butcher's" gets used.

I wonder if it was possible to unify them on the map features page, e.g.
shop=baker
shop=butcher
shop=chandler
shop=...

Any comments from the northern and southern :) hemisphere?

Best regards,

ce