[Talk-GB] Name Suggestion Index

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 08:24, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering how iD (and Vespucci) decides what to offer as brands when I create a new feature, or when it suggests something like "Ibis looks like a brand with incomplete tags". The answer is the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_Suggestion_Index (NSI) ...now detailed on a wiki page that I created.
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> The NSI is a github repository, so updates and editions can be suggested. This can be done via your own fork or on the OSMUK fork. I'm not sure what will work best for us yet.

I stumbled across the NSI myself a couple of months ago, while looking
to add brand tags to shops in my local area though iD. I've been
collecting a list of missing UK brands (or at least ones that iD
didn't suggest) and also some potential errors (e.g. where it's
assumed all shops of a certain brand have a specific shop tag, when in
reality there can be some variation in the types of outlets). What I
haven't looked into yet is the mechanics of how to suggest
adding/correcting entries and what other info is needed for each one.
(Submitting github issues and pull requests for each individual brand
seems like a lot of effort on the face of it -- but maybe that's what
you need to do.)

In case anyone is interested in adding these, or providing details of
how to do it, here's the list of missing brands that I've collected so
far (some may have been added since I started collecting):

  Animal (Clothes)
  Barnado's (charity)
  Bill's (retaurant)
  Bon Marché (clothes)
  Byron (restaurant/burgers)
  Café Rouge (restaurant)
  Card Factory (cards)
  Fred Olsen Travel (travel_agent)
  Hughes (electrical goods)
  Johnsons (dry_cleaning)
  Jones the Bootmaker (shoes)
  Mr. Shoes (shoes)
  Muffin Break (Cafe)
  Scrivens (optician)
  Timpson (key-cutting / shoe_repair)
  The Perfume Shop (perfumery)
  Topman / Topshop (clothes)
  TUI (travel_agency)
  William H Brown (estate_agent)
  YMCA (charity shop)
  Yours (clothes)

And here are the one I think there are problems with:

  Greggs (allow amenity=cafe or shop=bakery or both)
  Clintons (should recognise shop=cards as well as shop=gift when
suggesting 'upgrades' in iD)

Best wishes,

Robert.

-- 
Robert Whittaker