On 6 March 2016 08:47:36 GMT+00:00, Ralph Aytoun <ralph.ayt...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >My personal opinion is that this is getting totally out of hand. >Shops pay a lot of money to advertise their wares and you are stepping >in >and trying to do commercial marketing for free. >Not only that but who is going to maintain this information? Shops >rotate >their stocks on a seasonal basis. They also stock multiple brands! > >So we will end up with tagging ... >sells:bread:white:medium:Hovis= >sells:bread:white:thick:Hovis= >sells:bread:50-50:medium:Hovis= >sells:bread:white:medium:Own_Brand= >sells:bread:white:thick:Own_Brand= >etc. etc. etc. > >With this kind of trend we are definitely moving away from the realms >of >sustainable Mapping and creating some kind of stock take for each shop! >And >some of us know that with regard to stock taking even the shops >themselves >are hard pressed to maintain an up-to-date record. So where does that >leave >us two weeks, two months or two years down the line?
I agree that this can get out of hand quickly and become unmaintainable. The detail level of some sells:* examples worry me. But I can see its use for tagging oddities. You'd have the traditional tags implying what the place sells, and use the sells tag for exceptions, for example: amenity=pub sells:alcohol:wine=no sells:books=yes -- Vincent Dp _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
