I could not be happier to see Walmart added. When the hurricane
was bearing down on the Texas coast, I added as many Walmarts as I
could find near the eye's projected landfall. Walmart is big with lots of
backup and therefore likely to reopen quickly and be resource for the area.
I hope they will respond to Frederik's
excellent and detailed suggestions.
Charlotte
At 04:00 PM 12/15/2017, you wrote:
Hi, On 12/15/2017 11:31 PM, Damian Rollison wrote:
> We ask that you please take a look at the data at the following site and
> check the tagging and locations:
I have little knowledge of Walmart and therefore should leave the floor to
people with local knowledge. I see that another commenter has already
assessed your contribution to be superior with no questions asked within
an amazingly short time.
I hope you will find more diligent reviewers like him; careful reviews like
that are what make an import a success for both businesses and the
community.
I have randomly selected only one of the > 4000 objects from the browse
link (http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/nampa.jpg) and have the following
observations/questions, but ultimately this is of course something the US
community should decide, and I'm an ocean away.
1. Do you happen to have building outlines too, or is there a process by
which whoever adds the thing to OSM can quickly add the building outline
from aerial imagery? It seems like not too much extra work, if one looks at
4000 POIs anyway, to quickly trace a building to go with it.
2. In my particular example, there seems to be a pharmacy in OSM that is
mapped separately, but also called "Wal-Mart". The import does nothing to
the pharmacy. I don't know if all Wal-Marts have a pharmacy - the pharmacy
POI is certainly within the Wal-Mart building. Is that a completely separate
issue, or would e.g. your opening times information apply to the pharmacy
as well?
3. Personally I am a bit skeptical about the shop names; I see that in my
example you are changing "Wal-Mart" to "Walmart Supercenter," and I
assume that Wal-Mart will, like many other chains, have different classes of
supermarkets and will have different trade names for these - super, hyper,
metro, local, whatever. I'm not sure if these
chain-specific denominations are
really desirable to have in the name tag; they seem to me to be more a
marketing tool than anything else. I have checked Google Street View for this
particular Walmart bulding and the sign on the building just says "Walmart,"
not "Walmart Supercenter". I would probably be tempted to map it as such -
i.e. "name=Walmart", not "name=Walmart Supercenter". (It's also easier on
the map - a longer name runs a higher risk of being dropped due to space
constraints.)
4. In my particular example, you have set an
"addr:full" tag that contains the
street and house number, but you have not set "addr:housenumber" or
"addr:street." What we would normally do is have "addr:housenumber" and
"addr:street" (where we would neither abbreviate the "East" nor the "Road"
in "East Franklin Road"), and the "addr:full" is
optional. If "addr:full" is used
(which is completely optional), it would
normally contain city and post code as
well.
Bye,
Frederik --
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