[Talk-GB] Toys R Us

[Rob Nickerson]

The reason I said "full removal preferred" was because on a shop=* feature,
my understanding is that the name tag relates to the shop. So no shop
equals no shop to have a name.

If an old sign still exists then this should be mapped *as a sign* not as a
shop.

So perhaps we need to edit these to remove the shop tag and name tag and to
add an advertising=sign tag and message=Toys R Us tag.

To me this feels like the most appropriate OSM tags to use.

What do you think?

Rob


On Sat, 5 May 2018, 11:57 Rob Nickerson, <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one.
>
> If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it just
> because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do other local
> edits.
>
> Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm not
> convinced. A crap map could also put people off - "why bother, OSM is so
> far behind, I'll contribute to/just use Google maps instead"
>
> I agree that a *blank* map encourages new mappers, but that was 10 years
> ago! Less convinced that an out of date map does. At least not with our
> current homepage or if we do get a new mapper its most likely to be a
> single edit (maybe with MapsMe) rather than a new prolific mapper.
>
> So I'm happy with this mechanical edit (full removal preferred, but
> addition of disussed ok too).
>
> Rob
>
> P.s. Do we still have cases of Lloyds TSB in OSM?
>

On 5 May 2018 11:57 a.m., "Rob Nickerson" <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one.

If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it just
because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do other local
edits.

Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm not
convinced. A crap map could also put people off - "why bother, OSM is so
far behind, I'll contribute to/just use Google maps instead"

I agree that a *blank* map encourages new mappers, but that was 10 years
ago! Less convinced that an out of date map does. At least not with our
current homepage or if we do get a new mapper its most likely to be a
single edit (maybe with MapsMe) rather than a new prolific mapper.

So I'm happy with this mechanical edit (full removal preferred, but
addition of disussed ok too).

Rob

P.s. Do we still have cases of Lloyds TSB in OSM?
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