[Talk-us] Walmart Import

[Toby Murray]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us> wrote:
> Ilya,
>
> Here's a Walmart that's been built in the last few years I recently added to
> OSM:
>
> http://audit.osmz.ru/browse/walmart/5935
>
> What's currently in OSM represents my own mapping style, but I think it's
> worth discussing the differences before you change them across the whole
> country.
>
>
> If I read this correctly, you are planning on changing the top-level tag
> from shop=department_store to shop=supermarket.  I have been using
> shop=supermarket only for Walmarts branded as "Walmart Neighborhood Market"
> and using shop=department_store for all other Walmarts.  For me the main
> distinction is that most Walmarts have departments for things like clothing
> and electronics that don't exist in the "Walmart Neighborhood Market"
> stores.

This was my first thought as well but apparently we are wrong. The
wiki is actually fairly clear about it:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dsupermarket

Under the "Similar Tags" section on that page:
"A department store that sells a full selection of groceries (e.g.
Walmart Supercentre) which is often called a "hypermarket" should be
tagged shop=supermarket"

And over on the shop=department_store page it says that only
non-supercenter stores should use the department_store tag.

I'm not saying it makes sense to me... but this is apparently the
convention. Decided upon by... someone :)

Toby