[Imports] Walmart import

[Ilya Zverev]

16.12.2017 03:00, Frederik Ramm пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/15/2017 11:31 PM, Damian Rollison wrote:
>> We ask that you please take a look at the data at the following site and
>> check the tagging and locations: 
> 
> I have little knowledge of Walmart and therefore should leave the floor
> to  people with local knowledge. I see that another commenter has
> already assessed your contribution to be superior with no questions
> asked within an amazingly short time. I hope you will find more diligent
> reviewers like him; careful reviews like that are what make an import a
> success for both businesses and the community.

To be clear, the only person from OpenStreetMap involved with the import 
until yesterday was me. I consulted Brandify on using osm_conflate, and 
most of the work they did themselves. I'd say this is much better than 
any of the previous attempts at importing businesses in OSM.

> 1. Do you happen to have building outlines too, or is there a process by
> which whoever adds the thing to OSM can quickly add the building outline
> from aerial imagery? It seems like not too much extra work, if one looks
> at 4000 POIs anyway, to quickly trace a building to go with it.

OSM Conflator works only with nodes, except when it updates tags on 
polygons. If you like mapping building outlines, please do a challenge 
for MapRoulette after this import. Brandify doesn't have building outlines.

> 2. In my particular example, there seems to be a pharmacy in OSM that is
> mapped separately, but also called "Wal-Mart". The import does nothing
> to the pharmacy. I don't know if all Wal-Marts have a pharmacy - the
> pharmacy POI is certainly within the Wal-Mart building. Is that a
> completely separate issue, or would e.g. your opening times information
> apply to the pharmacy as well?

Some Walmarts have pharmacies and other similar branded sub-stores. I 
think Brandify mentioned that data when we talked. But they obviously 
decided to start with more important POIs. We might see an import for 
these pharmacies later.

> 3. Personally I am a bit skeptical about the shop names; I see that in
> my example you are changing "Wal-Mart" to "Walmart Supercenter" and I
> assume that Wal-Mart will, like many other chains, have different
> classes of supermarkets and will have different trade names for these -
> super, hyper, metro, local, whatever.

There are two types of Walmarts: "supercenters" and "neighbourhood 
markets". Often these names are printed on the side in full, see:

http://www.ktrs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WALMART.jpg

In OSM, one third of already mapped walmarts (1088) are named "Walmart 
Supercenter". That's why I recommended to keep the full name instead of 
dropping the second word. Also, there are regular "Walmart"s in the 
import, so maybe it's best to differentiate between the two.

> 4. In my particular example, you have set an "addr:full" tag that
> contains the street and house number, but you have not set
> "addr:housenumber" or "addr:street". What we would normally do is have
> "addr:housenumber" and "addr:street" (where we would neither abbreviate
> the "East" nor the "Road" in "East Franklin Road"), and the "addr:full"
> is optional. If "addr:full" is used (which is completely optional), it
> would normally contain city and post code as well.

De-abbreviating street names and distinguishing "Fourth Street of Oaks" 
from "4, Street of Oaks" is a very complex task, and unrelated to the 
importing subject. I thought the street address from the source data 
would be better added to some tag on an object, but without touching 
addr:street and addr:housenumber. And addr:full looks good for this. 
There is no rules for this tag, and city and country are usually 
geocoded, so the value can help when searching.

Denis, thanks for the suggestions. Adding the "operator=Walmart" tag is 
a great idea. Not sure about parsing addresses though.

Georg and Damjan, thanks for the phone number suggestion. Adding "+1-" 
to these tags shouldn't be hard.

Not sure about the website pattern. I like the "/details" better, but 
whether that could be changed for the import, depends on Brandify.

Ilya