It looks like at least one node reverted as a result of the message
below has been unreverted again:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2359499624/history
Maybe I missed the memo about this, but I'm not convinced that shop tags
doing the hokey-cokey makes OSM data any more usable :-)
Cheers,
Andy
On 24/10/2014 17:46, SK53 wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
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