I'd tagged a Dollar General and a Family Dollar as shop=convenience but based on Russ's comment decided to change them to variety_store.
After I did that, I wondered what the predominate tagging was. First cut was to use taginfo to find all the objects with a name of 'Dollar General' (295 at this time). I was hoping I could just click on the "Combinations" tab to see what shop values were used. No such luck. So I opened all 295 Dollar General named objects in JOSM and poked around. Found all sorts of tagging including things like "shop=Dollar General" and amenity=marketplace. Decided to be a bit more rigorous and saved the XML and started doing some greps. Here are some approximate numbers: shop=convenience -> 106 shop=variety_store -> 66 shop=supermarket -> 45 shop=department_store -> 35 shop=discount -> 14 shop=general -> 13 amenity=marketplace -> 12 shop=clothes -> 3 shop=convenience_store -> 1 shop=Dollar Store -> 1 shop=gift -> 1 Seems like there ought to be a much easier way to do this. Why does "combinations" come up empty? But it also seems like it is not clear cut that most mappers consider a Dollar General to be a variety store. Does anyone have a quicker and easier way to determine the combination of tags that have been used on objects similar to what one is mapping? -Tod On Wed, December 11, 2013 8:36 am, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > Personally, I tag "big box" stores like Target, KMart, WalMart etc with > shop=department_store, just because that seems like the closest fit that > isn't too restrictive (they're much more than a supermarket, to my mind). > > You can pick an area and run Overpass Turbo and see what you get with > different tags, for example: > http://overpass-turbo.eu/?value=department_store&key=shop&template=key-value > > Alternatively, you can run a search by name (ie > http://overpass-turbo.eu/?value=Target&key=name&template=key-value) and > see > what you get. I did this in Chicago, and found Targets tagged > department_store, supermarket, and hypermarket(!) > > Brad > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Russell Deffner > <russdeff...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Seems the stores you listed are going to have different tags, example >> the >> 'dollar' stores are probably best tagged shop=variety_store, the wiki >> has a >> pretty extensive list/description of the shop tags here: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop >> >> However, I would say that K-Mart, Target, and Wal-Mart (especially the >> 'super' kind) maybe don't fit any of the documented tags; I think there >> was >> some talk about adding a "big_box" or "superstore", maybe hit up the >> tagging >> talk-list to see if that's still in the works. >> >> =Russ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Will Skora [mailto:skorasau...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:49 AM >> To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> Subject: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States >> >> Hi, >> >> At past OSM meetups that I've organized, new mappers have asked me >> what shop=* tags to use for several chain stores in the USA and I had >> not found any clear or consistent practices of what tags to use for >> these stores and even as a relatively experienced mapper, I wasn't >> sure what tags to encourage them to use. >> >> I am writing to hear what you've used, which ones are most popular, >> and perhaps the US community could build a consensus on them (gasp!). >> >> For example, several chain stores that we have wondered about include: >> K-Mart, Target, Wal-Mart, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, >> 'Bed, Bath, and Beyond'; TJ Maxx; Marshall's; Radio Shack; Meijer's; >> Kohl's; Costco; BJ's; and Big Lots. >> >> I know there's taginfo (including one for the US! >> taginfo.openstreetmap.us) but unfortunately, it doesn't let you find >> out what tag combinations are being used with a name=* (For example, >> finding what tag is used most often with name=Dollar-General). >> >> Regards, >> Will Skora >> _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us