My local railway station is being re-developed and one of the cafes on the station is now operating out of a small kiosk. It is only selling drinks and pastries. In South-east England this type of coffee kiosk is common on railway stations. Elsewhere you find kiosks providing tourist information, or specific types of fast food (pretzels, bratwurst ...) or ![selling selling boat cruises][1]. cruises: [ ![kiosk photo on geograph.co.uk][2]<br><small>photo CC-BY-SA Michael Ely (on geograph.co.uk)</small> ][2] The current definition on the [wiki][2] [wiki][3] suggests that `shop=kiosk` should be used for kiosks which sell newspapers, magazines, sweets, tobacco (and possibly lottery tickets): the retail category known as CTN (**C**onfectionery, **T**obacco, **N**ews) in the United Kingdom. Whereas the tag value might not be perfect it seems that this is a widely accepted and useful meaning, which would therefore be devalued by using `shop=kiosk` for other retail and information outlets operating from kiosks. I would therefore be interested to know : - any existing tagging practices - any suggestions as to how to map this variety of objects [1]: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865266 [2]: http://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/86/52/865266_2671498a_213x160.jpg [3]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dkiosk

My local railway station is being re-developed and one of the cafes on the station is now operating out of a small kiosk. It is only selling drinks and pastries. In South-east England this type of coffee kiosk is common on railway stations. Elsewhere you find kiosks providing tourist information, or specific types of fast food (pretzels, bratwurst ...) or ![selling boat cruises][1]. The current definition on the [wiki][2] suggests that `shop=kiosk` should be used for kiosks which sell newspapers, magazines, sweets, tobacco (and possibly lottery tickets): the retail category known as CTN (**C**onfectionery, **T**obacco, **N**ews) in the United Kingdom. Whereas the tag value might not be perfect it seems that this is a widely accepted and useful meaning, which would therefore be devalued by using `shop=kiosk` for other retail and information outlets operating from kiosks. I would therefore be interested to know : - any existing tagging practices - any suggestions as to how to map this variety of objects [1]: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865266 [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dkiosk

My local railway station is being re-developed and one of the cafes on the station is now operating out of a small kiosk. It is only selling drinks and pastries. In South-east England this type of coffee kiosk is common on railway stations. Elsewhere you find kiosks providing tourist information, or specific types of fast food (pretzels, bratwurst ...) or ![selling boat cruises][1]. The current definition on the [wiki][2] suggests that `shop=kiosk` should be used for kiosks which sell newspapers, magazines, sweets, tobacco (and possibly lottery tickets): the retail category known as CTN (**C**onfectionery, **T**obacco, **N**ews) in the United Kingdom. Whereas the tag value might not be perfect it seems that this is a widely accepted and useful meaning, which would therefore be devalued by using `shop=kiosk` for other retail and information outlets operating from kiosks. I would therefore be interested to know : - any existing tagging practices - any suggestions as to how to map this variety of objects [1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABoat%20hire%20kiosk%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%20865266.jpg http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/865266 [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dkiosk

My local railway station is being re-developed and one of the cafes on the station is now operating out of a small kiosk. It is only selling drinks and pastries. In South-east England this type of coffee kiosk is common on railway stations. Elsewhere you find kiosks providing tourist information, or specific types of fast food (pretzels, bratwurst ...) or ![selling boat cruises][1]. The current definition on the [wiki][2] suggests that `shop=kiosk` should be used for kiosks which sell newspapers, magazines, sweets, tobacco (and possibly lottery tickets): the retail category known as CTN (**C**onfectionery, **T**obacco, **N**ews) in the United Kingdom. Whereas the tag value might not be perfect it seems that this is a widely accepted and useful meaning, which would therefore be devalued by using `shop=kiosk` for other retail and information outlets operating from kiosks. I would therefore be interested to know : - any existing tagging practices - any suggestions as to how to map this variety of objects [1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABoat%20hire%20kiosk%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%20865266.jpg [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dkiosk