On Tue, March 12, 2019 5:23 am, Marc Gemis wrote: > Before deprecating the shop=fashion tag, shouldn't we reach out to the > mappers that use shop=fashion ? > > Maybe they have a lot more domain knowledge than the people on this > mailing list
There is of course value in sourcing outside of our group of self-appointed priesthood - the values of clothes=* are a complicated matter full of non-orthogonal dimensions, that absolutely requires input from domain experts outside of this list... I did not know about the term "fast fashion" until two minutes ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fashion). But it will be nice when this mess is relegated to the clothes=* subtag while shop=clothes provides a simple and universally recognized category that contributors with no domain knowledge can apply easily with few mistakes. There will be arguments for a distinct shop=fashion category - some may remark that shop=fashion sells some shoes and some accessories... But those are accessory - the main product is clothes and I claim that, in the present case, taxonomic compactness is more valuable than this minor distinction. While large groups are superior in providing more information, they are incapable of simplification - pushing it requires a small group and the proposal can then be submitted to the community as a whole. > and can explain why they used shop=fashion and not > shop=clothes; clothes=... From the Openstreetmap data, I see no distinction in most cases - the others look like they belong elsewhere, such as shop=cosmetics or shop=bag. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
