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

Gareth L o.i at live.co.uk
Fri Dec 20 10:06:54 UTC 2019


My local branch is a Laura Ashley Home and branded as such.
 http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/u08Hvnyzpex1Z6OmilaKjw/photo
(On the left)

Gareth

On 20 Dec 2019, at 09:47, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

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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