[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, 15:08 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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> Am Fr., 21. Apr. 2023 um 14:08 Uhr schrieb Andy Townsend <> ajt1047 at gmail.com> >:
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>> On 21/04/2023 12:17, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
>>  We're actually talking about the "long tail" of shop values - genuine, 
>>  perfectly descriptive, perfectly valid values, like "shop=whisky" that 
>>  someone mentioned on IRC this morning. Changing that to something 
>>  generic without recording the extra detail somewhere (and communicating 
>>  to data consumers where that extra detail has moved to) is essentially 
>>  low-grade vandalism - removing detail from OSM.  It devalues the hard 
>>  work of the people who surveyed these things in the first place.
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> whole-heartedly agree, it also makes it hard to impossible to "organically" introduce new classes/types via mapping, because as soon as you add it someone monitoring some qa tool comes along and changes the specific value to something established but not so specific or sometimes even not fitting. These activities are sometimes called "gardening", but in OSM it isn't completely clear what is weed and what is crop, so we better make it even clearer that this kind of "gardening" should not be performed.
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I agree!

shop=whisky (or shop=beer) should be either
- documented as valid and welcome
- handled by something like shop=alcohol alcohol=beer
- left alone

Retagging them to shop=alcohol and losing detail is not good way to spend time,
flattening to shop=yes would be obviously even worse

but we do not need (theorethical examples ahead this time)
both shop=beer and shop=beers
shop=piwo (shop=beer I guess)
shop=monopolowy (shop=alcohol)
shop=alkohol (shop=alcohol)
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