Shops
 Feature page: Shops
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A place selling a retail product or service. These may range from the obvious shops such as supermarkets and places to buy food to video rental and car dealerships to places offering some kind of retail service such as paying electricity bills, car washes, high street accountants and tax preparation.
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Values
You are free to use values that match your needs as a mapper and your local or country environment, culture and language. If using the English language and describing a profession, please use the singular form, e.g. butcher not butchers nor butcher's.
For international ease of rendering and searching, a small global core set is being developed (see Map Features and Proposed Features for the latest). Currently includes:
Country Specific Lists
Feel free to develop lists here that match the needs of your country.
- Greece, WikiProject_Greece/Taglist. Some of the tags are with the key:shop.
UK
If in doubt, the following examples show how previous contributors have handled some common dilemmas:
- Food shops: The most common tags for non-specialised food shops are shop=supermarket and shop=convenience. The use of shop=grocery is more common than "grocer" or "groceries", but is still rare. Compared to a supermarket, a convenience store is relatively small (less than 3,000 sq. ft. of floor space), and has extended opening hours. Common tags for specialised food stores include shop=butcher, shop=bakery, shop=greengrocer
- Hardware and DIY: shop=doityourself is the most common form (particularly for the larger chains), but shop=hardware is also widely used. For more specialised outlets, consider less common alternatives such as shop=ironmonger, shop=tool hire, shop=builders merchant, shop=trade
- Coffee: use shop=coffee for a shop that specialises in selling the ingredients, amenity=cafe for one which sells the drink
- Chemists and pharmacies: use amenity=pharmacy if they handle prescriptions, shop=chemist if not
- Bookmaker or betting shop?: both shop=betting and shop=bookmaker are common
- Estate agents, insurance agents and solicitors: Different contributors prefer office=* or shop=* for these services. For estate agents shop=estate agent is more common; for solicitors office=solicitor, and for insurance agents office=insurance
Most shops are tagged according to the type of goods that they sell, but because some business models are distinctive and widely understood, there are also some exceptions.
- In the UK a charity shop (shop=charity) normally means one that it is staffed by volunteers, used to raise funds, and stocks a range of goods, including many that have been donated. Because they do not follow quite the same format, Charity shops that specialise (in books, clothing, bicycles, etc) are often tagged according to their specialisation instead.
- Some chains do not easily fit the standard categories, with the result that a variety of different tags have been used. To date contributors have normally tagged Argos stores as shop=catalogue; Maplin, Currys and Comet as shop=electronics, PC World as shop=computer, Matalan as shop=clothes; Homebase and Wickes as shop=doityourself; WHSmith as either shop=books or shop=newsagent and Boots as amenity=pharmacy (sometimes shop=optician). There is little consistency in the way that branches of Halfords are tagged.
See Also
Certain categories are mapped using the amenity=* due to their importance, particularly to tourists and visitors.
These currently include:
Eating and drinking places are also mapped as amenities:
A variety of approaches are used to record the name of a shop
name=* is intended to hold the name displayed on the shop, and operator=* is intended to hold the name of company that runs it. For branches of a large chain contributors use either the name of the chain (e.g. "name=Tesco", or the specific branch (e.g. "name=Tesco Dover"). Some chains display different names on their different types of store (e.g. "Tesco Extra", or "Tesco Express". At present some contributors chose the name tag, and some the operator tag to show this information. Although brand=* has been used to indicate the brand of the retailer, this tag was intended to show the brands which a retailer stocks. It is normally used in this way for distributors who offer a limited range of brands (e.g. in the motor trade, as "shop=car, name=Bristol Street Motors, brand=Vauxhall")
Other places of business may be mapped with office=*. Common examples include:
If the shop is closed or not used it can be taggged disused:shop=* (see disused=*), but it is more common for a shop to be temporarily unoccupied, so shop=vacant is found more frequently.
Use landuse=retail to describe an area where retail activity is concentrated.
