Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-03 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 2 November 2014 16:01, SK53 wrote: > So in summary: let all work on the documentation, discussions, but please > work for consensus and recognise that allowing time to build that will > result in an overall better dataset. I agree that seeking consensus is important, which is why I stopped the

Re: [Talk-GB] RFC-2 mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-03 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 2 November 2014 16:11, Andy Street wrote: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:24:46 + > Matthijs Melissen wrote: >> - 'Brantano Footwear' versus Brantano > Whilst company names do not necessarily reflect trading names I'd be > inclined to take "Brantano (UK) Limited" as further evidence for > "Brant

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-processing shop values (was mechanical edit)

2014-11-03 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 3 November 2014 12:19, SK53 wrote: > Broadly I'm not in favour of the various mechanical edits suggested. > Bringing together bookmaker tags is harmless, but does little to gather in > the long tail. More extensive edits both deny the undoubted value of > revisiting an area (either in life or f

Re: [Talk-GB] Post-processing shop values (was mechanical edit)

2014-11-03 Thread David Woolley
On 03/11/14 12:19, SK53 wrote: Bringing together bookmaker tags is harmless, but does little to gather Except, possibly that one of the big political issues about such shops is that they now get a lot of their money from fixed odds machines, which means there is no element of bookmaking invo

[Talk-GB] Post-processing shop values (was mechanical edit)

2014-11-03 Thread SK53
Broadly I'm not in favour of the various mechanical edits suggested. Bringing together bookmaker tags is harmless, but does little to gather in the long tail. More extensive edits both deny the undoubted value of revisiting an area (either in life or from an armchair), and are unnecessary. The fol

Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Robinson
+1 -Original Message- From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] Sent: 01 November 2014 13:56 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Voting mechanical edit: UK shop names Dan S wrote: > Also, Matthijs sent out an RFC email proposing this whole process - he > got