[Talk-GB] Toys R Us

[Borbus]

On 05/05/18 13:03, Andy Townsend wrote:
> Taking as read the arguments in for and against a mechanical edit for 
> possibly closed shops* it'd be great if shops that we definitely know 
> are now closed could be properly tagged as what they are now, so for 
> example 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1485964357#map=19/53.98855/-1.09350 
> can then be rendered as 
> https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=21&lat=53.988577&lon=-1.0934931 
> and https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3265969285 as 
> https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=20&lat=53.9879136&lon=-1.049185 
> .

I don't think anybody is arguing that vacant shops should be 
mechanically removed, just that they might become disused:amenity etc. I 
never remove the name until the sign has gone. I would love it if the 
renders actually showed this, though. The amenity icon will go, but it's 
not completely clear that the amenity no longer really exists.

Happy mapping,

Borbus.