On 20/04/2023 19:50, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
For start I want to propose to people to review shop tags in their area
with undocumented shop values or ones documented as problematic.
See http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1u2o
Reviewing "odd" tags before tagfiddling them away seems to me a very
sensible approach. However, running that query locally finds, alongside
a couple of typos by me, lots that are very much correct, but just not
on your list - there are some very odd shops out there.
To change "shop=veryrarevalue" where it was correct to
"shop=lessrarevalue"without preserving the detail somehow loses detail
from OSM and is therefore by definition a Bad Thing. Some of the
entries on your list I'd definitely want to check onsite ("gun" and
"firearms" is one obvious one such, but there are others).
Also, changing rare shop types into "yes" helps absolutely no-one. If a
data consumer wants to handle a catch-all for "shop" they can; they
don't need them to be set to "yes" first.
That doesn't mean we should keep obvious rubbish in OSM -
"shop=stationary" is an obvious and amusing typo for "shop=stationery".
Single-use examples, especially featuring capital letters like
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1u2R ("shop=Chandlery") are also obvious
candidates for changing to something at least non-capitalised.
The rest, however, I really won't worry about. I disagree very much
with your paragraph that starts "For quite long time...", but let's not
let that get in the way of fixing what ought to be fixed - either
manually or automatically.
Best Regards,
Andy
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