[OSM-talk] bot proposal: shop values cleanup (low use values only, 1 used 250 times, three over 100 times, many used less)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Fr., 21. Apr. 2023 um 09:47 Uhr schrieb Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:11:49PM +0100, Andy Townsend wrote:
> > To change "shop=veryrarevalue" where it was correct to
> > "shop=lessrarevalue"without preserving the detail somehow loses detail
> from
> > OSM and is therefore by definition a Bad Thing.  Some of the entries on
> your
>
> I disagree with that blanket "Bad Thing". It is much more likely that a
> general map will show shop=lessrarevalue with a specific icon than
> shop=veryrarevalue. So if you are using shop=veryrarevalue instead of
> shop=lessrarevalue you might lose detail in the database, but in
> practice you will gain detail in actual use.
>


what we actually want is both, a reasonably generic/specific value for a
"main" class, and potentially additional tag(s) for details.
Rather than just replacing shop=veryrarevalue with shop=moregenericvalue,
we should probably also add moregenericvalue=veryrarevalue

Cheers,
Martin
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