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<p>Hi all, <br>
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<p>I'm going to try to summarize some of my thoughts / findings on
this issue thanks to all the helpful feedback here so far. <br>
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<p>I took a good look through (randomish sample) <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1pJG">everything
tagged shop=wool</a>, and in particular those with websites. It
does seem like these are almost entirely shops selling yarn,
though I did find at least one that wasn't but was also a
plausible "wool" shop with no yarn: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eaglewools.com.au/">https://www.eaglewools.com.au/</a><br>
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<p>For the most part, I'm happy to have found a somewhat more
established tag that basically matches what I <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/yarn_shops">was
proposing here</a>. Though as I and some others have noted, I
think the primary thing here is that the shop sells <i>yarn</i>
(and knitting etc supplies), regardless of whether the yarn is
made of wool or silk or hemp or eyelashes or whatever. Is "wool
shop" a British English thing? I (North American) really hadn't
heard of that before this and would have called this a "yarn shop"
or "knitting shop". I even found that language on some English
language websites I looked at.<br>
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<p>Random aside: The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pl:Tag:shop%3Dwool">Polish(?)
wiki page</a> for shop=wool does seem to mention yarn and
knitting directly. <br>
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<p>Anyway, if there is consensus that `shop=wool` is an accepted tag
for a store selling <i>yarn</i>, I'm happy to list `shop=yarn` as
a deprecated tagging on that page and proceed with shop=wool. <br>
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<p>With all that in mind, I went ahead and edited the (English) wiki
pages for shop=[ wool, sewing, haberdashery, fabric ] to try and
more clearly separate and identify these. For the moment, the
difference between a sewing shop and a haberdashery is still
unclear to me; is a sewing shop just a haberdashery that also has
some sewing machines and/or fabric? ...but that can be a
conversation for another day. </p>
<p>Let me restate some assumptions for the sake of debate:<br>
* shop=wool is a shop that sells yarn, even if there is no literal
wool on premises<br>
* a shop selling nothing but wool fabric is shop=fabric (stores do
specialize in wool suiting)<br>
* a shop selling nothing but wool clothes is shop=clothes</p>
<p>Thoughts?<br>
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<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;"> NateWessel.com </a> </small>
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