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<x-tab> </x-tab>I could
not be happier to see Walmart added. When the hurricane<br>
was bearing down on the Texas coast, I added as many Walmarts as
I<br>
could find near the eye's projected landfall. Walmart is big with lots
of<br>
backup and therefore likely to reopen quickly and be resource for the
area.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>I hope
they will respond to Frederik's excellent and detailed
suggestions.<br><br>
Charlotte<br><br>
<br>
At 04:00 PM 12/15/2017, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi, On 12/15/2017 11:31 PM,
Damian Rollison wrote: <br>
> We ask that you please take a look at the data at the following site
and <br>
> check the tagging and locations: <br>
<br>
I have little knowledge of Walmart and therefore should leave the floor
to <br>
people with local knowledge. I see that another commenter has already
<br>
assessed your contribution to be superior with no questions asked within
<br>
an amazingly short time. <br>
I hope you will find more diligent reviewers like him; careful reviews
like <br>
that are what make an import a success for both businesses and the <br>
community. <br>
I have randomly selected only one of the > 4000 objects from the
browse <br>
link
(<a href="http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/nampa.jpg" eudora="autourl">
http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/nampa.jpg</a>) and have the following
<br>
observations/questions, but ultimately this is of course something the US
<br>
community should decide, and I'm an ocean away. <br>
1. Do you happen to have building outlines too, or is there a process by
<br>
which whoever adds the thing to OSM can quickly add the building outline
<br>
from aerial imagery? It seems like not too much extra work, if one looks
at <br>
4000 POIs anyway, to quickly trace a building to go with it. <br>
2. In my particular example, there seems to be a pharmacy in OSM that is
<br>
mapped separately, but also called "Wal-Mart". The import does
nothing to <br>
the pharmacy. I don't know if all Wal-Marts have a pharmacy - the
pharmacy <br>
POI is certainly within the Wal-Mart building. Is that a completely
separate <br>
issue, or would e.g. your opening times information apply to the pharmacy
<br>
as well? <br>
3. Personally I am a bit skeptical about the shop names; I see that in my
<br>
example you are changing "Wal-Mart" to "Walmart
Supercenter," and I <br>
assume that Wal-Mart will, like many other chains, have different classes
of <br>
supermarkets and will have different trade names for these - super,
hyper, <br>
metro, local, whatever. I'm not sure if these chain-specific
denominations are <br>
really desirable to have in the name tag; they seem to me to be more a
<br>
marketing tool than anything else. I have checked Google Street View for
this <br>
particular Walmart bulding and the sign on the building just says
"Walmart," <br>
not "Walmart Supercenter". I would probably be tempted to map
it as such - <br>
i.e. "name=Walmart", not "name=Walmart Supercenter".
(It's also easier on <br>
the map - a longer name runs a higher risk of being dropped due to space
<br>
constraints.) <br>
4. In my particular example, you have set an "addr:full" tag
that contains the <br>
street and house number, but you have not set
"addr:housenumber" or <br>
"addr:street." What we would normally do is have
"addr:housenumber" and <br>
"addr:street" (where we would neither abbreviate the
"East" nor the "Road" <br>
in "East Franklin Road"), and the "addr:full" is
optional. If "addr:full" is used <br>
(which is completely optional), it would normally contain city and post
code as <br>
well. <br>
<br>
Bye,<br>
Frederik -- <br>
Frederik Ramm ## <br>
eMail frederik@remote.org ## <br>
N49°00'09" E008°23'33" <br>
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