[Talk-GB] Subject: Re: Thomas Cook shops

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 14:51, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 13:38, Dave F via Talk-GB
> <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> >
> > Because shop=* indicates it is still open for business.
>
> If it does not do so in "shop=vacant" then it does not do so in
> something like "opening_hours = none".

What you're proposing here is "oh no it isn't" tagging, which is
generally frowned on.

amenity = pub <- "yay, this is a pub"
opening_hours = none <- "oh no it isn't"

Any map, app, geocoder etc that doesn't parse the additional tags is
therefore mislead. It's much more preferable to avoid confusion by
changing the main tag, in this case changing the "shop" tag to
something else (like vacant) or removing it entirely by converting it
into disused:shop tag.

Thanks,
Andy