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

[John Whelan]

shop=consignment

Locally it means a shop that sells things such as high end used clothes on consignment.  ie the owner of the goods only get paid when the items are sold.

Cheerio John



Philip Barnes wrote on 5/19/2023 12:25 PM:
> On Wed, 2023-05-17 at 20:48 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
>> For start there is a long list of shop values which meaning I do not
>> understand
>> (for example, from start of list of exactly such values:
>> shop=grossery, shop=towing, shop=showroom, shop=salon, shop=garage,
>> shop=pond, shop=consignment...)
>>
> Maybe here I have the advantage of being a native speaker but these
> mostly look fairly intuitive to me. Also looking at the names often
> helps.
>
> shop=grossery
> First glance it looks like a typo of grocery.
> There is one in the UK which is a small co-op. So that one should be
> shop=convenience. I do not know about the usage in Cameroon but asking
> local mappers is preferable to simply changing the tag to =yes. They
> could well be foodshops/grocers>
>
> shop=towing
> First thought is 'depends on the flavour (or flavor) of English.
>
> Usage is mostly in North American and it looks like breakdown, tow your
> vehicle. Names tend to confirm this.
>
> shop=showroom
> Where stuff is displayed for sale to be installed seems to be the
> thing.
> A bit like the Gas Showrooms of my childhood. These were places where
> gas appliances were displayed, you paid for them and they were then
> fitted by their staff.
>
>
> shop=salon
> Salon is a common name used for a hairdressers shop, so most likely a
> mistagging of shop=hairdresser or beauty.
> The names of places with those tags tends to confirm my suspicions.
>
> shop=garage
> Garage has a few car related meanings. A place where you take your car
> to be repaired, fill it with fuel or its a building where you keep your
> car.
>
> Tags of the places using this suggest a mix of car stuff. Mostly car
> repair. For example https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/153706791 has a
> note MOT operator, so car testing/repair
> and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/509612586 Chesterfield Concrete
> Garages will obviously sell you a concrete pre-fabricated garage to put
> in your garden.
>
> shop=pond
> This one seems obvious. Immediately thought of a shop selling pond
> supplies, pumps, liners, plants, fish for your garden pond.
> More commonly tag usage is shop=aquatics.
>
> The main thing if you don't understand a tag
>
> shop=consignment
> The word consignment suggests a courier but appears to be a thing in
> the US and Canada. Quite a few, and it seems to be what they describe
> themselves as.
> I am prepared to accept that this is outside my life experience and if
> I need to understand it I will ask the local community or a mapper who
> has added them. Actually there a two within a few minutes walk of my
> cousins in her local high street, so I could ask her.
>
> But changing these to shop=yes helps nobody. As I mentioned shop=pond
> would probably have been my first thought if I wanted a pump and liner
> for my garden pond.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
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