I suspect the fixtures & fittings will be cleared out fairly pronto, although not the fascia signage. As the firm has been liquidated I presume all leases on retail property are now in default, and consequently null and void. Landlords will be anxious to get new tenants as quickly as possible, and are likely to clear the shops for that reason. (A certain amount of speculation on my part as I don't know what the actual legal situation with ownership of fixtures & fittings is in these circumstances). Ether way we can learn more by some on-the-ground surveys.
Phones 4U went into administration in September 2014, and their shops were cleared out of fittings pretty rapidly, although they remained as visible 'ghosts' on high streets for a long time afterwards. A nice refinement of the shop=X => shop=vacant;disused:shop=yes would be to only go from name=Y to old_name=Y when the signage disappears. Frederic Rodrigo talked about pedestrian navigation by landmark at SotM, and prominent closed shops (and also pubs) are often useful landmarks. However, I think this is still a luxury for the average mapper trying to keep somewhere up-to-date. Jerry On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 14:54, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > Thomas Cook shops are not vacant. They may not be open to the public > today, but they may well be reopened by a new owner in the future and that > may even be under the Thomas Cook brand if the administrator sells some or > all of them to another company. In the mean time they are still branded and > still a landmark of sorts. > > If a shop is emptied or reused by another firm then change that one > otherwise I think we should wait for a while to see what happens. > > cheers > Chris Hill (chillly) > > On 24/09/2019 14:00, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > I'm a fan of shop=vacant, old_name=Thomas Cook myself > > You could argue for not:name=Thomas Cook maybe > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, 13:34 Tadeusz Cantwell, <t4d...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I changed the three shops in N.I to disused;shop=travel-agent since I >> wasn't sure what the best practice was in this case. Not all of them had >> the wiki links etc. Any advice on a better way? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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