Dear Matthijs, As Will has objected to these edits, I do too. I agree with him that it is far too premature to even consider doing this.
AFAIK the Nottingham area is the only place in the UK, and one of the very few places in the world, where there has been a systematic approach to mapping shops (by Paul Williams, Kev Swindells, Will Phillips and myself). The tags chosen have been chosen with care and represent a very valuable data set for evaluating how one might develop the tagging scheme for shops in the future. Altering these tags to some view of what they should be creates the following problems: - It destroys the utility of the OSM-Nottingham <http://osm-nottingham.org.uk/> site which is a show case for OSM in our local area. This already has a categorisation of retail tags which we know works really well (created by Will Phillips, but pretty much in accord with my own ideas of classification set out in my slides at SotM-Baltics. (OSM Nottingham demonstrates incidentally that consuming such data, as I have said before, is not a major point of development complexity. - It destroys a highly useful data set for evaluating how things might be tagged by mappers in the field. It also shows a massive amount of disrespect for other OpenStreetMap contributors in a multitude of areas their mapping styles, their hard work, and their local knowledge. I would ask you to revert edits made in the UK over the past few days, and for you to abstain from further mechanical edits in the area. Should you not do this I may feel a need to refer your actions to the Data Working Group. Regards, Jerry Clough On 24 October 2014 14:44, Matthijs Melissen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am proposing to unify the names of chain shops within the UK. For > details, please see > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/UK_Shop_Names > . > > Please let me know if you have any comments. If there are no further > comments, I will invite list members to vote on this automatic edit. I > will not proceed without at least 8 votes with 2/3 approval. > > Kind regards, > Matthijs > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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