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

[Tom Hughes]

I see there's at least one near me that has been named in
exactly that way as "Laura Ashley Home":

   https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5024407483

No idea if that actually reflects how the shop is branded
though.

Tom

On 20/12/2019 09:08, 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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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