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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 21, 2023, 10:17 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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

shop=socks vs shop=clothes clothes=socks
shop=firewood vs shop=fuel fuel=wood
shop=dog_grooming vs shop=pet_grooming pet=dog
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