[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] I've added some new shop values in Map Features

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Moved to talk

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>Sent: 24 October 2008 8:25 AM
>To: OSM-Dev list
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] I've added some new shop values in Map Features
>
>Matt Amos wrote:
>
>> i would call that a shop=convenience. what distinction would you draw
>> between them, ronnie barker notwithstanding?
>
>Ronnie Barker was a local round here... he lived two villages away,
>in a tiny village where David Cameron lives now.
>
>Anyway.
>
>There's not a whole lot of difference. A "general stores" is more an
>old-fashioned thing, open 9-5, early closing Wednesday, and so on. A
>"convenience store" is probably more like a Londis or Spar; doesn't
>sell the ironmongery, probably open later and sells more cheap booze.
>The "general stores" is dying out, sadly.

This brings us to another question about post offices in the UK. A great
many traditional post offices have closed, with the facility transferred (if
at all) to local convenience stores, newsagents and the like. The post
office local to me had moved three times in the last few years, all within
the same short row of retail outlets as one place closed and the post office
facility was moved to another. Finally in the last few days this local
office has shut for good :-(

The question is, when a post office is part of another facility, how best to
tag? Perhaps a post_office=yes approach?

As for Ronnie, a sad day when he passed away.

Cheers

Andy