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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 21, 2023, 17:45 by andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 13:06, Mateusz Konieczny via talk<br></div><div><talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote>Apr 20, 2023, 21:54 by andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:<br></blockquote><blockquote>shop = vaping → shop = e-cigarette> shop = vape_store → shop = e-cigarette<br></blockquote><blockquote><div>"vape" seems to be the more widely-used term, in the UK.<br></div><div><br></div><div>but it is the same shop type, right?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is clearly a high degree of overlap. I don't use either, so<br></div><div>cannot say whether there is synonymy, nor which, if any, might be a<br></div><div>subset of the other.<br></div><blockquote><div>Note that https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=e-cigarette is established<br></div><div>value - do you think it is bad/misleading/unclear enough that we should have both<br></div><div>shop = vape and shop = e-cigarette despite them being synonymous?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't believe that the wiki is regarded by the community as<br></div><div>authoritative. Do you have evidence that it is? Or that the particular<br></div><div>page which you cie is the result of a community consensus?<br></div><div><br></div><div>[other responses acknowledged]<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Wiki should not be mindlessly obeyed but it at least tends to be right.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And if shop=e-cigarette and vape shops or vaping shops are not actually<br></div><div dir="auto">exactly the same thing and such edit is unhelpful then it means that this<br></div><div dir="auto">page should be significantly rewritten.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Do you have any reason to expect that this things are not the same?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My research so far confirmed that this specific page is right,<br></div><div dir="auto">though I can ask at <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/">https://community.openstreetmap.org/</a> or <br></div><div dir="auto">tagging mailing list or US Slack or somewhere else if there is any real<br></div><div dir="auto">chance that these are distinct shop type.<br></div> </body>
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