[Tagging] shop=pets/pet=*, are we missing a wiki page?

[Jeroen Hoek]

On 11-03-2023 08:34, Kai Michael Poppe wrote:
> while mapping a shop for dog supplies (shop=pets), I checked the wiki
> if the combination with pet=* would be accepted.
> 
> Behold, Tag:shop=pets shows "Tags used in combination" to include
> pet=*, yet Key:pet only is a disambiguation page for shop=pet and
> pets=*...

Wow. The tags pet=* and pets=* definitely need better documentation due 
to their quite different use.

The meaning of pet=* (you can see for yourself: 
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1sjE) is clear enough, but the keys are 
really easy to mix up (note that you already mixed up shop=pets and 
shop=pet in your message).

> So, are we missing a page describing the type of animals a shop sells
> or sells accessories for?

Yeah, this calls for better documentation. The meaning of the tags is
pretty clear though, so that shouldn't be too hard.

> Are we just gonna assume people will know what the English word for
> the pet they want to tag is?

Sure. `cat`, `fish`, and `dog` are pretty basic vocabulary well within 
reach of, I would estimate, at least 99.5% of mappers. Documenting the 
most common values won't hurt, but while there will be some mappers who 
have no English proficiency at all, it is doubtful that documentation 
translation efforts will ever reach as far as the values of pet=* for 
more than a handful of languages — if that. You could implement a list 
of the most common values for pet=* for the shop=pet preset in ID, that 
could help.