[Tagging] amenity=bicycle_repair_station

[Andrew Guertin]

On 11/09/2015 09:41 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> amenity=bicycle_repair_station has a problem: it's attracting lots of
> active tagging
> of shops offering bicycle repair.  For example:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3772809894
> and http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/337421757
>
>
> That was not the intent.  amenity=bicycle_repair_station was meant for
> unattended
> tool stands, often outdoors, often 24/7, generally public.
>
> I'm seeking support for a mechanical edit to a new tag name.
> There are known automated clients of this tag, and I am in contact with
> both.

I'd support a name change.

If you're looking for suggestions, perhaps

amenity=bicycle_tool_station or
amenity=bicycle_tool_stand

which avoids the problem by describing what it IS rather than what 
happens there, while hopefully also not sounding like a place where you 
can buy bicycle tools (which amenity=bicycle_tools might).


How do you plan to deal with the incorrectly tagged shops? Leave them as 
bicycle_repair_station? Give them a new tag of their own? Keep them in 
the automated edit and hope the new tag name just stops more from being 
added?

A quick search shows me there are 1922 total things mapped 
amenity=bicycle_repair_station, and of those 311 have a name tag. 
Assuming that all of the repair shops will have a name tag, and only 
some of the things with names are shops, this puts an upper bound of a 
few hundred incorrectly mapped shops. Of course, it could be hard to 
tell, as some shops could have outdoor tool stands...

--Andrew