On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote:
My entire motivation for making this tag is to record this data > > in machine-readable form. I want to make my detector of things to survey > to stop suggesting opening hours that are not worth surveying. > My thoughts about this keep evolving. At the moment it seems to me that your reason for wanting to do it is actually a good reason not to do it. My first thought was that a note is adequate. My second thought was that being able to use something like overpass-turbo to detect shops that need to be resurveyed is a good thing. My final (so far) thought is that it will cause more problems than it fixes. Somebody, perhaps you, surveyed the place and didn't see a sign, so used this tag. At some future point somebody, perhaps you again, runs a query to see which shops need to be resurveyed. This particular shop doesn't need to be resurveyed because it doesn't have a sign. The problem is that your idea makes the assumption that the shop will NEVER have a sign, so may never get resurveyed. A sign could have been put up five minutes after the first survey. Some shops in my town (it's not a big town) start up and fail after a couple of years (sometimes after only a couple of months), so I have to keep re-surveying anyway. Shops change their opening hours, occasionally. I don't see a need for this new tag. Leaving the opening hours unspecified seems perfectly adequate. Oh, I misunderstood your reason. You want a special tag invented solely for the purpose of making your app stop complaining about lack of opening hours. I'm not convinced about that being either necessary or a good idea. Things change. If you're resurveying an area anyway then it's worth checking the opening hours because they may have changed, or a sign may have been put up, or the business may have gone bankrupt and a new business is there, or... -- Paul
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