[Talk-GB] Mechanical edit: shop=betting to shop=bookmaker for selected names

[Matthijs Melissen]

This change has now been carried out. The number of shop=betting shops
in the UK has been reduced from 356 to 77.

The remaining shop=betting shops, i.e. the ones not part of one the
the large chains, might not be all bookmakers, so we need to rely on
local knowledge. Some might be better tagged as amenity=casino,
leisure=adult_gaming_centre (like Cashino), or shop=lottery, for
example.

To see the remaining shops tagged with shop=betting in your area, you
can use Overpass Turbo:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/6zO
Browse through your area and press 'Run'. The shops you find in this
way still need to be corrected. It would be great if local mappers
could help with that.

Kind regards,
Matthijs

On 18 December 2014 at 00:19, Matthijs Melissen
<info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> In October, I proposed the following edit.
>
> For all objects within the UK tagged with shop=betting and name
> Betfred, Coral, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power or William Hill, the tag
> shop=betting will be changed into shop=bookmaker.
>
> More information can be found here:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/Betting.
>
> No opposition has been raised, and no opt-outs have been received. I
> will therefore go ahead with this edit.
>
> The data working group have indicated that they have issues with
> voting used as a procedure to approve mechanical edits - I will come
> back to that in a separate e-mail. However, as the community seems to
> be unanimous in favour of this edit, I believe there is no reason to
> further postpone this edit.
>
> I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the discussion.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matthijs