Apr 21, 2023, 10:17 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:

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> Am Fr., 21. Apr. 2023 um 09:47 Uhr schrieb Jochen Topf <> joc...@remote.org> 
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>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:11:49PM +0100, Andy Townsend wrote:
>>  > 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
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>>  I disagree with that blanket "Bad Thing". It is much more likely that a
>>  general map will show shop=lessrarevalue with a specific icon than
>>  shop=veryrarevalue. So if you are using shop=veryrarevalue instead of
>>  shop=lessrarevalue you might lose detail in the database, but in
>>  practice you will gain detail in actual use.
>>
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> what we actually want is both, a reasonably generic/specific value for a 
> "main" class, and potentially additional tag(s) for details.
> Rather than just replacing shop=veryrarevalue with shop=moregenericvalue, we 
> should probably also add moregenericvalue=veryrarevalue
>
I agree, for example 

shop=socks vs shop=clothes clothes=socks
shop=firewood vs shop=fuel fuel=wood
shop=dog_grooming vs shop=pet_grooming pet=dog
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