[Talk-GB] Laura Ashley - looking for tagging consensus

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Fri Dec 20 09:34:19 UTC 2019


As Stuart said, last time I went in one it was interior decoration and didn't sell clothes so probably one which needs a survey for each individual shop.

Phil (trigpoint)

On Friday, 20 December 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> You could generalise if the majority of stores fit the standard category,
> as individual shops can still be 'interior_decoration' if that is all that
> they do. A difficulty could be that editing apps suggest that it is
> 'incorrect' and needs updating. Some chains make it easier by having a
> sub-brand like "Laura Ashley Home", but clearly some do not.
> 
> I curse the real world for refusing to fit itself into our categorisation
> scheme! :D
> 
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 8:53 AM Stuart Reynolds <
> stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I may be wrong, but I believe that there were some home (furniture) shops
> > that didn’t sell clothing, and some years ago my family would reliably buy
> > wallpaper from Laura Ashley which had the traditional Laura Ashley design
> > on it. So that would seem to back up the “interior_decoration” tag. So I
> > don’t know that you can necessarily generalise without a survey of each
> > store - although I agree that clothing is probably the most likely for most
> > cases these days. Not that I’ve been in one for quite some time!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stuart
> >
> > On 20 Dec 2019, at 07:25, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for consulting. Even if you don't get a huge response (like with
> > The Range) it is good to get wider opinion. With The Range I simply didn't
> > know so had no response.
> >
> > A short poll in my household (myself + my wife) concluded: "Laura Ashley
> > is a clothing store that happens to also sell furniture"
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 00:52 Silent Spike, <silentspike100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a UK based maintainer of the name suggestion index
> >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_Suggestion_Index> and would
> >> like to get this brand added. Unfortunately it's not so obvious how it
> >> should be tagged and I'm not comfortable making a tagging judgement call
> >> alone without consulting the UK community.
> >>
> >> My last thread of this nature for The Range didn't attract many
> >> responses, but some input is always better than none and it allowed me to
> >> get that brand into the index knowing that if consensus changes then the
> >> tagging can easily be updated in OSM.
> >>
> >> Here's the Laura Ashley website and Wikipedia page for those unaware of
> >> this chain:
> >> https://www.lauraashley.com/en-gb
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ashley_plc
> >>
> >> It looks like currently there are:
> >>
> >>    - 44 shop=clothes
> >>    - 20 shop=furniture
> >>    - 15 shop=interior_decoration
> >>    - 4 shop=houseware
> >>    - 1 shop=home_furnishing
> >>    - 1 shop=fabric
> >>    - 1 shop=fashion
> >>
> >> This makes sense as it seems that furniture and clothing are the main
> >> items sold. The tagging alone seems to suggest `shop=clothing` is favoured
> >> more - does this seem reasonable or do you think another tagging is more
> >> suitable?
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