Re: [Talk-GB] RFC Mechanical edit: UK Shop Names

2014-10-25 Thread Ian Caldwell
You say we manually exclude bus stops (highway=bus_stop) I would have thought you should only be changing where there is a shop tag. If not your Cotswold - Cotswold Outdoor would change http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/146053979. Ian On 24 October 2014 20:39, Matthijs Melissen

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread Rob Nickerson
Matthijs wrote: Dear all, I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains Thanks Matthijs and everyone else who has contributed since. I know that retail mapping is one of Matthijs' pet projects (he always picks up the retail areas

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread ael
I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains I am not sure that this is on topic here, but I didn't see the Post Office there. Presumably it now counts now as a private business, although perhaps not quite retail. Our local main

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread Dan S
2014-10-25 17:48 GMT+01:00 ael law_ence@ntlworld.com: I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains I am not sure that this is on topic here, but I didn't see the Post Office there. Presumably it now counts now as a private

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread ael
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 07:39:49PM +0100, Dan S wrote: 2014-10-25 17:48 GMT+01:00 ael law_ence@ntlworld.com: I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains I am not sure that this is on topic here, but I didn't see the

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread Dan S
2014-10-25 20:14 GMT+01:00 ael law_ence@ntlworld.com: On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 07:39:49PM +0100, Dan S wrote: 2014-10-25 17:48 GMT+01:00 ael law_ence@ntlworld.com: I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains I am

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap ten years on, and why it's time for a fresh slate

2014-10-25 Thread Nick Whitelegg
I can recite a few of them. We have very little mobile presence, even  though smartphones are ideal surveying devices; a 5% intervention here  would bring so many more people to our 95%. Interesting points. I'd hope most of us, though, remain idealistic beyond our 20s and don't turn into some

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Retail chains

2014-10-25 Thread ael
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 08:19:25PM +0100, Dan S wrote: However two nodes with standard tags don't distinguish W H Smiths inside Post office from the inverse. That seems a useful distinction. sub_shop=yes is ugly, but perhaps something along these lines already exists or is needed? This