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

[Silent Spike]

Thanks for all the responses, very useful discussion and I was totally
unaware that some locations bear the additional "Home" branding.

@SK53 Looks like there's only one instance of `shop=furnishings`.

I think both of these options seem sensible:
1. Add "Laura Ashley" under `shop=clothes` and "Laura Ashley Home" under
`shop=furniture` (or similar)
2. Add "Laura Ashley" under both `shop=clothes` and `shop=furniture` and
leave it up to mappers to pick what's most suitable for their location


On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:09 AM SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I actually went and scouted out one of my local stores
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/244747285> after the last post. It's
> called "Laura Ashley Home" and does furniture, fabrics etc. I never checked
> usage of shop=furnishings. In days gone by there were concessions selling
> similar wares (probably more fabrics) in Homebase.
>
> I would expect that high street shops major in clothes, retail park shops
> either furniture or a mix of the two. If "Laura Ashley Home"  is a widely
> used name then that will help.
>
> I note that there are a couple of Laura Ashley branded hotels and some tea
> rooms mentioned on the website
> <https://www.lauraashley.com/en-gb/ukc/hotels-and-tea-rooms/ha100hosp>.
>
> Jerry
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 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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