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    <p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dwool">shop=wool</a>
      ... this seems like almost exactly what I'm proposing. And is used
      much <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1pEi">more frequently</a> than
      shop=yarn. <br>
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    <p>And yet for me, I never even thought to search for this. And the
      word 'yarn' doesn't actually appear anywhere on the page or it
      would have shown up in my searches of the wiki. <br>
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    <p>It's also not referenced anywhere on the <a
        moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dsewing">shop=sewing</a>
      page, which explicitly mentions knitting needles, etc. Nor on the
      <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dfabric">shop=fabric</a>
      nor <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dhaberdashery">shop=haberdashery</a>
      pages. <br>
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    <p>It seems like maybe the real problem here is that the various
      tags related to the "fibre-arts" aren't all that well documented
      yet and not at all well cross-referenced. Would anyone object to
      an attempt to better cross-reference and distinguish these
      categories? <br>
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    <p>In particular it seems to me like shop=wool should encompass
      things like knitting needles, and specify that it would be selling
      (wool) yarn, and not wool fabric as that would fall under
      shop=fabric. <br>
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    <p>I would also want to drop references to yarn and knitting needles
      from shop=sewing, pointing to shop=wool for that. <br>
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    <p>It seems like shop=haberdashery and shop=sewing need some further
      discussion, as they seem almost impossible to distinguish from the
      wiki documentation. Personally, I always thought of a haberdashery
      as a hat shop?? I somehow hadn't even heard of that tag before
      this discussion. <br>
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    <p>Best,<br>
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      <p> Nate Wessel<br>
        <small> Cartographer, Planner, Transport Nerd<br>
          <a href="https://www.natewessel.com"
            style="text-decoration:none;"> NateWessel.com </a> </small>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-01-03 07:51, Philip Barnes
      wrote:<br>
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      Shops selling wool are commonly referred to as wool shops so why
      not shop=wool?<br>
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      Yarn doesn't seem very intuitive to me as a native English
      speaker.<br>
      <br>
      Phil (trigpoint)<br>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On 2 January 2023 17:14:28 GMT, Nate
        Wessel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nate@natewessel.com"><nate@natewessel.com></a> wrote:
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          <p>Howdy y'all, <br>
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          <p>I am proposing to make official a tag that is already in
            use to some degree, <b>shop=yarn</b>, for shops that
            primarily sell yarn and other knitting/crochet supplies.
            Currently the wiki has these falling under shop=sewing. As a
            long-time sewer who has recently taken up knitting, I can
            say with confidence that these are very different things;
            though sometimes larger stores will sell both. <br>
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          <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
              href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/yarn_shops"
              moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/yarn_shops</a><br>
          </p>
          <p> Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.</p>
          <p>Thanks,<br>
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            <p> Nate Wessel<br>
              <small> Cartographer, Planner, Transport Nerd<br>
                <a href="https://www.natewessel.com"
                  style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true">
                  NateWessel.com </a> </small> </p>
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