On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:53:41 +0900 John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 11, 2018, at 5:29 PM, Mark Wagner <mark+...@carnildo.com> > > wrote: > > > > Empire Foods", > > The name doesn't help much either. > > A convenience store? > > Food production? (Not a shop) > > Food distribution? (Not a shop) > > Is it a greengrocer? > > A butcher? > > A supplier of Prepackaged foods sold B2B for convenience stores or > fast food restaurants (not a shop)? > > The office building for the chain of shops? > > I see this issue in Google maps all the time, where a distribution > warehouse is labeled as a "supermarket" because it has the chain's > name in the POI data. They were mapping by name and got it wrong. > > If it was "Weird Al's world of ketchup", then I could see having > trouble categorizing it, but tagging a business shop=food is missing > the chance to put > > shop=yes > and > fixme=please update tagging to correct shop type > > on the shop for a more knowledgeable mapper to update. > > We should have a couple more categories of market-type shops (as > discussed) before lumping all of them into shop=food. > > By tagging shop=food when you do not know how to tag it is wrong. It > is a missed opportunity not only for the tagged business (it will > probably never be revisited and properly tagged), but causes tagging > confusion when people go to tag similar businesses. If I follow your suggestion, there's even more of a missed opportunity. There are no "more knowledgeable mappers" in my area. I am the only person in an area the size of the United Kingdom to make a concentrated effort at mapping business: if I don't map it, it won't get mapped for years, if ever. "shop=food" may be vague, but it's more detailed than "shop=yes", and less wrong than trying to guess if it's a "shop=convenience", "shop=greengrocer", or something else. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging