Changeset: 36957898
fixing mobile phone shops (correcting tags etc)
Closed by GinaroZ
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created_by | iD 1.8.5 |
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host | http://www.openstreetmap.org/id |
imagery_used | Bing |
locale | en-GB |
Discussion
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Comment from SomeoneElse
Er - do you really think that there is still an active "phones4u" shop in the Strand? It seems unlikely - see http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/23/phones4u-hundreds-stores-are-empty-a-year-after-collapse .
Although as the above article points out a fair few of them were on long leases and are still branded, it'll need a proper on-the-ground survey to find out which. If you haven't done that I'd suggest leaving a note that than editing problematical data.
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Comment from GinaroZ
These edits were to bring all of the mobile phone shops into line using shop=mobile_phone. In this case phones4u was using cell_phone, many other were using phone(s), electronics, telecomms, etc.
As you say without a survey is required (although street view shows it's now an EE shop). But at least now all shops have the correct tag, making it easier to find the shops via overpass turbo. :)
There are other shops that need to be checked - like Orange/T-Mobile -> EE, which I was going to bring up on talk-gb.
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Comment from SomeoneElse
Well we can't use Google Streetview; obviously :)
The danger with updating data without checking it for validity is that it'll look more recently updated than it actually is. I would be very surprised if anyone would object to a mechanical edit of cell_phone to mobile_phone, but it's just common courtesy to let people know that you're going to do it, so that they can change any processes that consume OSM data. You also need to sanity check all the data that you're changing, so that any obviously invalid data can be found. There's a wider discussion of this sort of issue at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What's_the_problem_with_mechanical_edits%3F .
Ways (12)
- O2 (72140266), v2
- Carphone Warehouse (239869357), v3
- Carphone Warehouse (378330318), v2
- O2 (378330320), v2
- Carphone Warehouse (298337648), v2
- Carphone Warehouse (44146061), v7
- EE (44146011), v8
- EE (158005311), v4
- EE (173574118), v3
- O2 (103122997), v3
- phones4u (72140268), v3
- Carphone Warehouse (330649265), v5
Nodes (8)
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