As Stuart said, last time I went in one it was interior decoration and didn't sell clothes so probably one which needs a survey for each individual shop.
Phil (trigpoint) On Friday, 20 December 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote: > You could generalise if the majority of stores fit the standard category, > as individual shops can still be 'interior_decoration' if that is all that > they do. A difficulty could be that editing apps suggest that it is > 'incorrect' and needs updating. Some chains make it easier by having a > sub-brand like "Laura Ashley Home", but clearly some do not. > > I curse the real world for refusing to fit itself into our categorisation > scheme! :D > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 8:53 AM Stuart Reynolds < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I may be wrong, but I believe that there were some home (furniture) shops > > that didn’t sell clothing, and some years ago my family would reliably buy > > wallpaper from Laura Ashley which had the traditional Laura Ashley design > > on it. So that would seem to back up the “interior_decoration” tag. So I > > don’t know that you can necessarily generalise without a survey of each > > store - although I agree that clothing is probably the most likely for most > > cases these days. Not that I’ve been in one for quite some time! > > > > Regards, > > Stuart > > > > On 20 Dec 2019, at 07:25, Jez Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for consulting. Even if you don't get a huge response (like with > > The Range) it is good to get wider opinion. With The Range I simply didn't > > know so had no response. > > > > A short poll in my household (myself + my wife) concluded: "Laura Ashley > > is a clothing store that happens to also sell furniture" > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 00:52 Silent Spike, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I'm a UK based maintainer of the name suggestion index > >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_Suggestion_Index> and would > >> like to get this brand added. Unfortunately it's not so obvious how it > >> should be tagged and I'm not comfortable making a tagging judgement call > >> alone without consulting the UK community. > >> > >> My last thread of this nature for The Range didn't attract many > >> responses, but some input is always better than none and it allowed me to > >> get that brand into the index knowing that if consensus changes then the > >> tagging can easily be updated in OSM. > >> > >> Here's the Laura Ashley website and Wikipedia page for those unaware of > >> this chain: > >> https://www.lauraashley.com/en-gb > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ashley_plc > >> > >> It looks like currently there are: > >> > >> - 44 shop=clothes > >> - 20 shop=furniture > >> - 15 shop=interior_decoration > >> - 4 shop=houseware > >> - 1 shop=home_furnishing > >> - 1 shop=fabric > >> - 1 shop=fashion > >> > >> This makes sense as it seems that furniture and clothing are the main > >> items sold. The tagging alone seems to suggest `shop=clothing` is favoured > >> more - does this seem reasonable or do you think another tagging is more > >> suitable? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-GB mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
