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

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Sun Sep 29 13:30:46 UTC 2019


On 29/09/2019 14:03, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> 
> I'm not keen on bulk automated closing everything called Thomas Cook 
> because the world is more complicated than it first seems to be. I 
> favour visual confirmation.
> 

I think too much effort goes into these big changes.  The real problem 
with business directory mapping on OSM is that people like doing the 
first time mapping of shops on a high street but no one likes 
maintaining them. The number of shops that are wrong because of churn or 
small businesses, or individual closures of chain shops is probably 
orders of magnitude more than the ones that get lots of publicity.

I doubt that many people are going to get misled by a Thomas Cook or 
Maplins store that remains mapped, but many may be misled by the loss of 
a specialist store that didn't make the national press.



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