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

[Andy Mabbett]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 13:06, Mateusz Konieczny via talk
<talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Apr 20, 2023, 21:54 by andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk:

> shop = vaping → shop = e-cigarette> shop = vape_store → shop = e-cigarette

> "vape" seems to be the more widely-used term, in the UK.
>
> but it is the same shop type, right?

There is clearly a high degree of overlap. I don't use either, so
cannot say whether there is synonymy, nor which, if any, might be a
subset of the other.

> Note that https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=e-cigarette is established
> value - do you think it is bad/misleading/unclear enough that we should have both
> shop = vape and shop = e-cigarette despite them being synonymous?

I don't believe that the wiki is regarded by the community as
authoritative. Do you have evidence that it is? Or that the particular
page which you cie is the result of a community consensus?

[other responses acknowledged]

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Andy Mabbett
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