Proposal:Shop=tortilla
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| Proposal status: | Proposed (under way) |
| Proposed by: | CENTSOARER |
| Tagging: | shop=tortilla |
| Applies to: |   
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| Definition: | A shop selling tortillas to the public as the main product, such tortillas are made with help of electric machines (tortilladoras). |
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| Draft started: | 2021-08-11 |
Proposal
Use the tag shop=tortilla to map a shop selling tortillas made with the help of electric machinery. Tortillas must be the main product sold in the shop.
The revised entry for a tortilla shop
| Key | Value | Elements | Description | Icon | Shop |
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| shop | tortilla |
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A shop selling tortillas produced with the help of electric machinery.
Customers may also find other tortilla related ingredients like salsa and fried tortillas (totopos). |
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New tags to use in combination
| Key | Possible Values | Description | Product |
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| main_ingredient, madeof | corn | Original tortillas are made of nixtamalized maize (see Corn tortilla on Wikipedia). | _01.jpg)
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| main_ingredient,madeof | flour | Flour tortillas are also common products in some places. | 
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Rationale
Right now, we tag tortilla shops mostly as bakeries, and contributors regularly prepend the word Tortillería to the tortilla shop's name, description, or note. As of 2021-08-11, five POIs already use this tag, but due to confusion, contributors have mapped at least 450 tortillerías or tortilla shops as bakeries, generic shops (shop=yes), restaurants, fast food places, convenience stores, etc. This tagging system has been barely acceptable because a lot of tortilla shops specify they are tortilla shops in their name, but this is commonly not the case.
Tortilla shops are not really close enough to a bakery. The literal translation for “bakery” in Spanish is panadería, which refers explicitly to baked bread (pan), and has a whole different meaning than tortillería. Also, the tortilla shop element is not local anymore, they are common from the USA to Central America, probably also present in South America and Europe.
Most tortilla shops in Mexico use an electrical machine called a tortilladora (a tortilla-maker machine) displayed at sight, customers usually can see or hear them working. Local mappers can probably recognize machine made tortillas from traditionally made ones, so they can use the proposed tagging without having to actually see/hear the machine working. This distinction can make useful a craft=tortilla tag, too.
Exhibition of the product to the public as in bakeries is not common practice, tortillas are just piled up somewhere inside the shop. Usually, customers don't buy by the piece but by weight, and they do not enter inside the shop. There's at least one employee weighting the product and charging customers on a bar at the entrance. Some more busy tortilla shops may have several employees at the bar and a whole team of others operating the machines (if they are there). It is as far from a bakery or more than a pastry shop.
Tagging
* Elements tagged: nodes, areas and relations. Mostly and ideally as nodes placed on the main bar where they attend customers. Little buildings and relation-buildings can also represent a tortilla shop.
* craft=tortilla may be proposed as a way of tagging places which sell tortillas produced by a more traditional method, from bare-hands to those produced with the aid of simple mechanical tools.
* There are bakeries where you can find "flour tortillas", mostly packed in plastic bags. These are bakeries and the fact they sell tortillas might be specified as a product sold there, similar to drinks in a bar.
Examples
Rendering
In the proposal section, I uploaded an icon that could be used to render this element type. The concept is of a tortilla-maker machine widely used in tortilla shops. There are three elements of the icon, the upper represents a deposit for the dough, the lower part tries to capture a conveyor, transporting tortillas.
Features/Pages affected
Tag:shop=tortilla would be created, Key:shop would be modified to list this key.
External discussions
[RFC] Feature proposal - use shop=tortilla for tortilla shops and tortillerías on the OSM Community Forum.
Another thread with some insight here (Spanish, Mexico).
Comments
Please comment on the discussion page.