Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2016-01-21 23:16, Paul Norman wrote: On 1/21/2016 1:44 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: When we are done cleaning up Starbucks, we'll still have at least one Starbucks with a wikipedia link, the original store But this won't be a link to the Starbucks article, but instead the specific one on that

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Norman
On 1/21/2016 1:44 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: When we are done cleaning up Starbucks, we'll still have at least one Starbucks with a wikipedia link, the original store But this won't be a link to the Starbucks article, but instead the specific one on that notable store. I still believe that N

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, JB wrote: > Just saying that I'm impressed how much people can write about that > specific private company. Are there some lobbyists hidden somewhere out > there? Will next month be the same with McDonald's or Burger King? I took on the Starbucks issue after it

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Jo
Why is that a problem? We do tend to tag them, so why not try to get it right and do it properly? I have to admit I didn't go as far as adding opening hours, AFAIC that's what the deeplinks are there for. I also didn't add any new ones for my area of interest, just fixed the already mapped ones. J

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread JB
Just saying that I'm impressed how much people can write about that specific private company. Are there some lobbyists hidden somewhere out there? Will next month be the same with McDonald's or Burger King? Le 21/01/2016 17:25, Andy Mabbett a écrit : On 21 January 2016 at 07:14, Bryce Nesbitt

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 January 2016 at 07:14, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > For chain stores I tend to add a link to the corporate website only I thought we weren't supposed to do that? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ talk mailing list talk@o

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Philip Barnes
Thank you Clifford. On Thu Jan 21 15:12:55 2016 GMT, Clifford Snow wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: > > > Still having problems, now a search on Starbucks is returning ones in > > Thailand. Can these tags be removed too? > > > I have a message into two of the m

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: > Still having problems, now a search on Starbucks is returning ones in > Thailand. Can these tags be removed too? I have a message into two of the mappers that added most of the Starbucks in Thailand asking for their help. From my convers

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Philip Barnes
Still having problems, now a search on Starbucks is returning ones in Thailand. Can these tags be removed too? Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Jolla ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 January 2016 at 00:39, Clifford Snow wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Andy Mabbett > wrote: >> >> I've linked that Wikidata item to the parent company (which has a >> series of Wikipedia links) - orphan items with no Wikipedia links are >> liable to be deleted from Wikidata. > Ca