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

Serge Wroclawski emacsen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 22:48:34 UTC 2013


Ian,

I had a working list of this stuff, partially built from Paul Norman's list
and partially built from Wikipedia.

If you tell me a place and a format, I can convert it to that.

- Serge


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get this question a lot during mapping parties -- probably because I
> suggest these sorts of places as a user's first edit.
>
> I wonder if we should add presets to iD for these sorts of places with
> tons of locations (Starbucks, McDonald's, etc.) so that they show up when
> searched in the preset list by the user.
>
> Is that too close to "selling out"?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Personally, I tag "big box" stores like Target, KMart, WalMart etc with
>> shop=department_store, just because that seems like the closest fit that
>> isn't too restrictive (they're much more than a supermarket, to my mind).
>>
>> You can pick an area and run Overpass Turbo and see what you get with
>> different tags, for example:
>> http://overpass-turbo.eu/?value=department_store&key=shop&template=key-value
>>
>> Alternatively, you can run a search by name (ie
>> http://overpass-turbo.eu/?value=Target&key=name&template=key-value) and
>> see what you get. I did this in Chicago, and found Targets tagged
>> department_store, supermarket, and hypermarket(!)
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Russell Deffner <russdeffner at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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