On 24 October 2014 17:46, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
That's interesting, and a project I certainly appreciate. Is there any
documentation on this tagging scheme?
Of course the risk is that other local communities might come up with an
equally well-thought out, but incompatible tagging scheme, which does
not help global data consumers.
I just checked, and I touched 5 objects in the Nottingham area:
shop=funeral_director to shop=funeral_directors
shop=video to shop=music for HMV
shop=hearing_aid to shop=hearing_aids
shop=chocolatier to shop=confectionery (Thorntons)
shop=car_repair;car_parts to shop=car_repair
Could you indicate how these changes relate to the Nottingham tagging
scheme? Were all old tags seen as correct by your scheme?
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.
I don't agree with all of your arguments, and I believe (globally)
standardizing tagging schemes is the way to go.
However, I agree we should not make mechanical changes that are
controversial, so I have reverted my edits of today and yesterday.
Kind regards,
Matthijs
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