Isn't there already a page for the shop=* tag?
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Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Jun 14, 2011 6:05 PM, "Josh Kraayenbrink" wrote:
> Is there any page on the wiki that has a methodology or straight up
> categories of stores and restaurants? I was thinking about creating a page
> to help those that don't k
It is, but what is the convention in the states for tagging, say, Sears?
Department store? Hardware store? other store? The only way you know these
things is if you do A LOT of mapping and start to figure out what needs to
go where. What if a newbie comes across this and they don't know what to do.
I'm a newbie and I've come across similar problems. However, maybe the
solution isn't so much in tags, but a need to normalize *if that's the right
word" the data. Your example of Sears is good. If I populate a store with
Sears, why can't I get a potlatch pull down that gives me all the correct
I would think Sears = department store; they called themselves that for many
years. I think something like Super Wal-Mart or (here in the Midwest) Meijer
is tougher; is it department store, clothing, grocery, or something else?
I'd rather have a newbie ask a million times, if they learn from it, b
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Kristian Zoerhoff
wrote:
> I would think Sears = department store; they called themselves that for many
> years. I think something like Super Wal-Mart or (here in the Midwest) Meijer
> is tougher; is it department store, clothing, grocery, or something else?
>
> I
On 6/14/11 10:25 PM, Kristian Zoerhoff wrote:
I would think Sears = department store; they called themselves that for many
years. I think something like Super Wal-Mart or (here in the Midwest) Meijer
is tougher; is it department store, clothing, grocery, or something else?
the variety of goods f
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> I'm a newbie and I've come across similar problems. However, maybe
> the
> solution isn'
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 07:52:15PM +, dion_d...@comcast.net wrote:
> Businesses don't make it easy when they go by multiple names. Is it IBM
> or International Business Machines?
>
> I'm sure you'll find similar issues with punctuation. IBM or I.B.M.?
Only the New York Times insists on I
One of the first times I remember having a similar thought of "how do
I tag this?" was with the office supply store Staples. I ended up
using shop=office but doing a quick XAPI query now I see that out of
the ~250 Staples shops mapped, the tags look like this like this:
6 office_supply
1
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