Hi DaveF and Shaun, My local OSM group (Edinburgh) is following this thread. It may not be the intention and I hope you mean good, but some see the tone as aggressive. Particularly DaveF repeatedly saying "your comments are moot or irrelevant", it can come across as dismissing Shaun's contribution to the topic.
It may be good for further replies in this thread (from anyone) to take an extra moment to read what you said. It's never bad to add in some positive comments or a "thank you" when responding to someone, especially to avoid an e-mail that is only disagreements. OpenStreetMap is nothing without the individual humans that contribute it, we should aim to keep the communication mediums as welcoming places! Back to the topic of FHRS... DaveF you questioned when it had been discussed previously. It was discussed during a 2019 project, and even documented on the Wiki page about FHRS: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Food_Hygiene_Rating_Scheme#Multiple_food_hygiene_ratings_for_a_location A lot of the questions are also being discussed on the community forum, in the thread for the current Quarterly Project regarding FHRS. It would be good for anyone in this thread to read through that too. I believe a lot more of UK OSMers read the forum. https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/2026-q1-quarterly-project-food-hygiene-ratings/140660 My personal view is that the OSM database isn't a place to just replicate the FHRS database, even if it's tempting to have 100% completeness in OSM. It's good to go with on-the-ground are the businesses present and verifiable, although there are still edge cases. I know a church building that very obviously has signage inside for both the church and the conference venue (shared building ownership), I have mapped them as distinct OSM objects and if they each had an FHRS id then I would use both. However if you have to go into the office, open a folder, and read the paperwork of an organisation that also uses the kitchen, then I don't see the purpose of adding that to OSM. If I want to know every organisation that is registered for food hygiene at the property, then directly looking at the FHRS dataset makes more sense. Thank you everyone who has been discussing the use of FHRS. I'm particularly grateful for those of you checking and mapping so many FHRS-registered organisations and using it to spot missing POIs. I'm too busy mapping playground equipment to spend lots of time on that. All the best, Gregory Marler (LivingWithDragons)
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