Apr 22, 2023, 14:10 by ajt1...@gmail.com: > On 21/04/2023 12:46, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > >> when you search for tea shop and it was marked as >> shop=herbata ("herbata" is Polish for tea) then even a well written search >> tool >> will fail to reliably find it. >> > > Where something is an _absolute direct equivalent_ (but in another language) > it makes no sense to use a distinct term (no-one's going to suggest > "highway=autoweg" for motorways in the Netherlands, for example), but where > there are genuine differences it does make sense to try and capture that > somehow. > I agree, but what about cases where the same meaning may be represented by more standard tags? Would you agree that for example shop = dog_grooming → shop = pet_grooming pet = dog shop = dog_beauty → shop = pet_grooming pet = dog shop = disused:bakery → disused:shop = bakery shop = pharmacy → amenity = pharmacy shop = hookah_lounge → amenity = hookah_lounge are helpful edits increasing usefulness and quality of OSM data (also when done as automated bot edit - assuming that bot went through discussion) > This also applies where English has borrowed a word that means something else > elsewhere - for example, I bet all the "shop=boutique" at > > https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1u5H> don't match the OSM wiki's definition, but > do match the French meaning of the word "boutique", which means "shop". > > Even "poorly written" data consumers need to be aware of the data they are > consuming. With OSM, there is no single definition**. Someone trying to > interpret data for the part of Togo that I linked above would surely say that > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5001651960> (tagged only > "shop=boutique") is just "some sort of shop". > shop=boutique seems to be a bit different problem, basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term that should be deprecated and not used > More generally, anyone with half a brain consuming OSM shop data (or > actually, _any_ external data from _anywhere_) will look at the values > contained in it***. > And that is exactly what lead to proposing this edits - I was writing code to handle OSM data and researched tagging situation. And one of[1] effects was discovering numerous cases of tags that seem to be exact duplicates of more standard ones, and retagging them seems to clearly improve OSM data as far as I can see Every data consumers spending massive time on building own alias list for tags and adding exceptions for say shop = disused:florist does not seem to be a superior solution to me - and for values listed here I think that bot edit is better than asking people in changeset comments or opening notes or doing nothing. Though maybe for shop = vaping → shop = e-cigarette shop = vape_store → shop = e-cigarette shop = vape → shop = e-cigarette shop = Vape_Store → shop = e-cigarette asking people in changeset comments who added this tags what they think about shop = e-cigarette would be a good idea? Rather then retagging in this proposed edit? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1] other results included improvements of OSM Wiki, improvements of iD presets like https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/884 "stop assuming that all shop=organic are supermarkets" that just got merged and removed certain dubious deprecation and some discussions and recommendations to use an alternative tagging.
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