[Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

[Russell Deffner]

Seems the stores you listed are going to have different tags, example the
'dollar' stores are probably best tagged shop=variety_store, the wiki has a
pretty extensive list/description of the shop tags here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shop 

However, I would say that K-Mart, Target, and Wal-Mart (especially the
'super' kind) maybe don't fit any of the documented tags; I think there was
some talk about adding a "big_box" or "superstore", maybe hit up the tagging
talk-list to see if that's still in the works.

=Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Skora [mailto:skorasaurus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:49 AM
To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Tags to use for chain stores in the United States

Hi,

At past OSM meetups that I've organized, new mappers have asked me
what shop=* tags to use for several chain stores in the USA and I had
not found any clear or consistent practices of what tags to use for
these stores and even as a relatively experienced mapper, I wasn't
sure what tags to encourage them to use.

I am writing to hear what you've used, which ones are most popular,
and perhaps the US community could build a consensus on them (gasp!).

For example, several chain stores that we have wondered about include:
K-Mart, Target, Wal-Mart, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar,
'Bed, Bath, and Beyond'; TJ Maxx; Marshall's; Radio Shack; Meijer's;
Kohl's; Costco; BJ's; and Big Lots.

I know there's taginfo (including one for the US!
taginfo.openstreetmap.us) but unfortunately, it doesn't let you find
out what tag combinations are being used with a name=* (For example,
finding what tag is used most often with name=Dollar-General).

Regards,
Will Skora

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