[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shop as post-partner

[Colin Smale]

>     On 02/11/2021 8:22 PM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 18:25, Robin Burek <robin.burek at gmx.de mailto:robin.burek at gmx.de > wrote:
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> >         Am 11.02.2021 um 18:28 schrieb Peter Neale via Tagging:
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> > >             They very often (but not always) have different operating hours, which you cannot show, if you insist on one entity with attributes)
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> >         of course you can, do you read my/our proposal?
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> >     >     You're right.  All we have to do is change all the editors to handle
>     your new way of specifying the extra opening hours.  And then
>     change all the data consumers to handle the extra opening hours
>     that otherwise they may not display.
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>     And then live with the fact that people looking at the map to find a
>     post office won't see it because it's in a shop.  Or maybe they won't
>     see the shop they're looking for because it's shown as a post office.
>     Or maybe we can then convince all the different cartos to display some
>     sort of new hybrid symbol.
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It's all this that makes it such a great shame that we don't make more effort to get tagging schemes "right first time," extensible and future-proof to some degree. The current process is more like design by committee and a "war of attrition" - when all the combatants have lost the will to live, whatever is left on the table becomes the closest we get to a consensus.

It's essential to get guidance into the discussions covering fields of expertise such as data modelling and GIS.

When two people cannot agree on "the answer" it is also possible that they are both right - but from different perspectives. If we can recognise that, we can attempt to adjust the model to accommodate both.

In this case there are different aspects to be considered: the post office may have different opening hours; it may be either the primary or a subsidiary function of the premises; and may be operated by a different company. Maybe I have missed some others.

Now let's focus on a good way of turning these characteristics into tagging.
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