How to tag tortilleria

Just to verify that I understand your proposal, the tag should be: amenity=tortillera. This could then be supplemented with a name tag of name=Tortillera <business name=""> which would appear as a label on the map.

You are correct. This is a very important feature of the Mexican landscape. It is a very small place, indeed that does not have one of these facilities. As I mentioned in my original post, my small town (pop. 20,000) has at least seven that I have identified. Larger cities have one every few blocks. I have little doubt that there are tens of thousands of these businesses in Mexico, and, according to Wikipedia, they are common throughout Central America and the southern USA.

I, too, have noticed and been somewhat frustrated by the European/USA cultural bias in OSM. Are you aware of any ongoing discussion related to this issue?

@SK53

neither should we relegate things which are important in a local context to obscure sub-tags, '''unless''' there is already a universal way of doing this

Thing is the point of amenity=biergarten comes from the outside food allowed feature, unlike a "beer garden" and other eatery establishments.

@dougcb68 If you would excuse my ignorance, I can't identify any crucial or distinct features of a tortilleria that would make it a amenity= yet. amenity=biergarten is only one example. Following your initial idea of shop=bakery, I might suggest shop=tortilleria. It can co-exist and be reinforced by food=torillas suggested by @jmapb, if needed be. You may see these as a specific form of shop=food. That being said, I don't know what's the status of shop=foodand food=.

I'd advise against amenity=tortillera. If it's primarily a place that people walk into, buy tortillas, and leave, then that's a shop. Cultural importance doesn't change that. The bodega is an important part of New York culture, and the tabac is an important part of French culture, but they're still shops.

The choice between shop=food and a more specific shop=* value is less important, but consider the value of being able to search for food shops without having to specify every sort of food in the query.

(Also, back to the amenity question... we shouldn't be mapping for the renderer, but just so you know, it's highly unlikely that amenity=tortillara will ever render on the default map, whereas the shop will.)

@diugcb68: no, I would use shop=tortillera (or possibly shop=tortilla. My example of something using the amenity key was purely to show that there are well-established tags for regionally distinctive things (often with a significant cultural aspect). It was not meant to recommend the amenity key as the relevant key to be used in such situations Using shop keeps it under the same key as other places to buy food groceries.