Fine with me. OSM's tagging versatility is at times it's weakness so
standardising can only be a good thing.
Stuart
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On 22 Oct 2014, at 23:06, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote:
Dear all,
For all objects tagged with shop=betting and name Betfred, Coral,
Matthijs,
Fine with me. That's a good idea, to use known brand names to make
sure you only change things that you can be confident about.
You might want to add a link on the wiki page, to this email thread.
Dan
2014-10-22 23:04 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl:
Dear all,
On 22/10/2014 23:04, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Dear all,
For all objects tagged with shop=betting and name Betfred, Coral,
Ladbrokes, Paddy Power or William Hill, I am planning to change the
tag shop=betting into shop=bookmaker.
I'm usually the first to stand up for a diversity of tags in OSM
I have no particular objection to this mechanical edit. I would query
whether it is that useful.
When I write code for consuming retail data I have no problems at all in
adding additional simple rules for assigning shops to particular classes. A
basic starting point for such work is looking at
Further to my previous mail. I have added a section about bookmakers on the UK
Retail Chain
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains#Bookmakers page
which I set up recently (at least in part to make it easier to know what
the consensus tagging was for various chains).
Here is a
Would it be worth adding a fixme tag to the unnamed shops that explains
'= betting' is discouraged to add a proprietor's name if known?
Dave F.
On 22/10/2014 23:04, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Dear all,
For all objects tagged with shop=betting and name Betfred, Coral,
Ladbrokes, Paddy Power or
On 23 Oct 2014 11:53, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Would it be worth adding a fixme tag to the unnamed shops that explains
'= betting' is discouraged to add a proprietor's name if known?
I noticed that nobody ever looks at fixme tags, I think adding an OSM Note
(through the website or
On 23 Oct 2014 11:48, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
Further to my previous mail. I have added a section about bookmakers on
the UK Retail Chain page which I set up recently (at least in part to make
it easier to know what the consensus tagging was for various chains).
That's a great page, I
I suspect there are rather too many for notes: although this worked well
when I added them to closed Netto stores. Notes are certainly suitable for
the peculiar shop=hardware ones.
The geojson can be converted into a shp file and read into PL2 or JOSM.
Most useful is to use this to generate a
On 23 October 2014 12:19, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
The geojson can be converted into a shp file and read into PL2 or JOSM. Most
useful is to use this to generate a task list in JOSM and step through them
(I've done this to find postal delivery offices (based on places with lots
of
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl
wrote:
I heard from many mappers that they are confused by the different tagging
options for shops, so having a page with all shop types of chain stores
hopefully also enables more mappers to start mapping shops.
I
On 23/10/2014 12:06, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
On 23 Oct 2014 11:53, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com
mailto:dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Would it be worth adding a fixme tag to the unnamed shops that
explains '= betting' is discouraged to add a proprietor's name if known?
I noticed that
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 12:26 +0100, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
On 23 October 2014 12:19, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
The geojson can be converted into a shp file and read into PL2 or JOSM. Most
useful is to use this to generate a task list in JOSM and step through them
(I've done this to
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 12:57 +0100, Dave F. wrote:
On 23/10/2014 12:06, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
On 23 Oct 2014 11:53, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
Would it be worth adding a fixme tag to the unnamed shops that
explains '= betting' is discouraged to add a proprietor's name
On 23/10/2014 12:57, Dave F. wrote:
I'm not convinced Notes are cleared up any more than Fixmes
They certainly are more visible to me - they're available for a simple
overlay on the main map and get announced in IRC channels.
In order to clear them up I wrote something* to create a Garmin
2014-10-23 11:16 GMT+01:00 SK53 sk53@gmail.com:
I have no particular objection to this mechanical edit. I would query
whether it is that useful.
You make a good point that it's fairly easy for any non-trivial data
consumer to merge the two tags in their query. However, I'd say there are
Dear all,
I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains
For all shops with more than 10 occurrences in Great Britain, it now
lists the most common way of tagging, as well as alternative tagging
options. This list was automatically
The next Nottingham pub meeting
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nottingham/Pub_Meetup will be on
Tuesday 28th October at the Lincolnshire Poacher from 19:30.
Potential talking points:
- Mapillary : I've added a few sequences around Nottingham
- OS Footpath data: ideas as to how SK53
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