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

[SK53]

The specific problem with that suggestion is that you miss lots of Thomas
Cook shops (particularly old Co-op Travel & Ilkeston Co-op travel): it hits
about 3 within 15 miles of Nottingham whereas there are nearer 11 (for
obvious reasons), and one of those is apparently is not
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/116307151/history> now a travel agent.

This latter aspect shows that editors other than iD may not surface
Wikipedia/wikidata tags & that therefore such data needs to be
cross-checked, and bulk edits may inadvertently change other things. In
many ways I prefer that we acquire new local mappers (like OftenResident in
Alfreton) who notice that an area is out-of-date & set about getting it
up-to-date, rather than doing a partial update and missing other info (like
the shop is now a hairdresser). Obviously others think we should keep
everything as up-to-date as the information we have available. I don't
think we have ever reached a consensus on this.

Jerry

On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 16:41, Silent Spike <silentspike100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's unclear to me if there's a consensus on the tagging here. Personally
> I like the `disused:` prefix.
>
> I couldn't see if it was mentioned anywhere, but we can also query for all
> the locations explicitly marked as part of the Thomas Cook brand using the
> `brand:wikidata` tag: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/MFP
>
> All of the results here can really be automatically re-tagged as disused
> or vacant since we explicitly know they were locations belonging to Thomas
> Cook (the beauty of wikidata tagging). You might say some may already have
> been sold and re-signed, but that can always be tagged after - we at least
> know for certain that none of them are Thomas Cook travel agency shops
> anymore.
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