Apr 21, 2023, 15:08 by dieterdre...@gmail.com: > > > Am Fr., 21. Apr. 2023 um 14:08 Uhr schrieb Andy Townsend <> > ajt1...@gmail.com> >: > >> On 21/04/2023 12:17, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: >> We're actually talking about the "long tail" of shop values - genuine, >> perfectly descriptive, perfectly valid values, like "shop=whisky" that >> someone mentioned on IRC this morning. Changing that to something >> generic without recording the extra detail somewhere (and communicating >> to data consumers where that extra detail has moved to) is essentially >> low-grade vandalism - removing detail from OSM. It devalues the hard >> work of the people who surveyed these things in the first place. >> > > > whole-heartedly agree, it also makes it hard to impossible to "organically" > introduce new classes/types via mapping, because as soon as you add it > someone monitoring some qa tool comes along and changes the specific value to > something established but not so specific or sometimes even not fitting. > These activities are sometimes called "gardening", but in OSM it isn't > completely clear what is weed and what is crop, so we better make it even > clearer that this kind of "gardening" should not be performed. > I agree! shop=whisky (or shop=beer) should be either - documented as valid and welcome - handled by something like shop=alcohol alcohol=beer - left alone Retagging them to shop=alcohol and losing detail is not good way to spend time, flattening to shop=yes would be obviously even worse but we do not need (theorethical examples ahead this time) both shop=beer and shop=beers shop=piwo (shop=beer I guess) shop=monopolowy (shop=alcohol) shop=alkohol (shop=alcohol)
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