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<div dir="ltr">My local branch is a Laura Ashley Home and branded as such.</div>
<div dir="ltr"> <a href="http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/u08Hvnyzpex1Z6OmilaKjw/photo">http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/u08Hvnyzpex1Z6OmilaKjw/photo</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">(On the left)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Gareth</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On 20 Dec 2019, at 09:47, Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>I see there's at least one near me that has been named in</span><br>
<span>exactly that way as "Laura Ashley Home":</span><br>
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<span> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5024407483</span><br>
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<span>No idea if that actually reflects how the shop is branded</span><br>
<span>though.</span><br>
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<span>On 20/12/2019 09:08, Jez Nicholson wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>You could generalise if the majority of stores fit the standard category, as individual shops can still be 'interior_decoration' if that is all that they do. A difficulty could be that editing apps suggest that it is 'incorrect'
and needs updating. Some chains make it easier by having a sub-brand like "Laura Ashley Home", but clearly some do not.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I curse the real world for refusing to fit itself into our categorisation scheme! :D</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 8:53 AM Stuart Reynolds <stuart@travelinesoutheast.org.uk <mailto:stuart@travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> I may be wrong, but I believe that there were some home (furniture)</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Laura Ashley design on it. So that would seem to back up the</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> “interior_decoration” tag. So I don’t know that you can necessarily</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> generalise without a survey of each store - although I agree that</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> clothing is probably the most likely for most cases these days. Not</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> that I’ve been in one for quite some time!</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Regards,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Stuart</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> On 20 Dec 2019, at 07:25, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson@gmail.com</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Thanks for consulting. Even if you don't get a huge response (like</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> with The Range) it is good to get wider opinion. With The Range I</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> A short poll in my household (myself + my wife) concluded: "Laura</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Ashley is a clothing store that happens to also sell furniture"</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 00:52 Silent Spike, <silentspike100@gmail.com</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> I'm a UK based maintainer of the name suggestion index</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_Suggestion_Index></span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> and would like to get this brand added. Unfortunately it's not</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> so obvious how it should be tagged and I'm not comfortable</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> making a tagging judgement call alone without consulting the</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> UK community.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> My last thread of this nature for The Range didn't attract</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> many responses, but some input is always better than none and</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> it allowed me to get that brand into the index knowing that if</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> consensus changes then the tagging can easily be updated in OSM.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> Here's the Laura Ashley website and Wikipedia page for those</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> unaware of this chain:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> https://www.lauraashley.com/en-gb</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ashley_plc</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> It looks like currently there are:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 44 shop=clothes</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 20 shop=furniture</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 15 shop=interior_decoration</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 4 shop=houseware</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 1 shop=home_furnishing</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 1 shop=fabric</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> * 1 shop=fashion</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> This makes sense as it seems that furniture and clothing are</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> the main items sold. The tagging alone seems to suggest</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> `shop=clothing` is favoured more - does this seem reasonable</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span> or do you think another tagging is more suitable?</span><br>
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<span>-- </span><br>
<span>Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu)</span><br>
<span>http://compton.nu/</span><br>
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