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

[Dave Stubbs]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
<ajrlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

well, amenity=post_office;shop=convenience doesn't actually clash, so
as long as they don't add the post office to banks or restaurants we
should be OK?