On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 14:36, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> In situations matching your description I think that either > shop=supermarket or shop=country_store would fit. > There used to be a shop near me which wouldn't really match country_store, convenience, variety, or hardware. It sold a bizarre mix of things. No food whatsoever, so not convenience or supermarket. No farm or garden equipment or clothing, so not country_store. Definitely not cheap (if anywhere else sold something you wanted this place would be more expensive) so not really variety. Like I said, it sold a bizarre mix of things. Kitchen utensils and equipment (but very little electrical stuff). Hardware like letterboxes, letterbox draught excluders, wood screws (not a wide selection), door bolts. Dustbins. Firewood. Brushes and brooms. I rarely went in there (after seeing the prices the first time I went in) but there was all kinds of other stuff I barely remember. Two local newspapers reporting its closure described it as a "hardware and household goods" store, but the local pound shop carries a bigger range of hardware than it did, and neither match up to a proper hardware shop like B&Q (or even B&M). The closest fit would be general, and even that is a very poor fit (there were no foodstuffs). But that's the closest match to "household goods and other random stuff." I have to ask what purpose is served by deprecating general. If it were an EXACT synonym of one of the other shop types then remove it. But it's not. There are a lot of grey areas in shop types, so it makes sense to leave it. Otherwise we end up deciding whether we should force a triangular peg into a square hole or a round hole. There are around 3,500 general stores mapped, about 0.1% of total shops. Are we to assume that ALL of those could be better described with a different value? Or are we to remove all rarely-used values just because they are rarely used? -- Paul
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