Unusual and not documented shop values in Thailand

Communities ประเทศไทย (Thailand)
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I created listing of unusual and not documented shop values, maybe it will be useful for mappers: User:Mateusz Konieczny/unusual shop values/Thailand - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Note that “unusual and not documented” does not mean “wrong” - many should be simply documented.

Some may be fixable remotely:

  • clear typos (shop=suupermarket)
  • written in language other than English but with clear mapping to local language (for example shop selling meat in Polish is “mięsny”, so shop=mięsny is clearly shop=butcher)
  • too specialized tags (shop=coal is better tagged as shop=fuel fuel=coal, shop=office_furniture as shop=furniture furniture=office, shop=indian_spices as shop=spices cuisine=indian)
  • very clear duplicates (shop=hair_salon vs shop=hairdresser)
  • shop with website, maybe even linked in OSM object, that allows establishing proper value of shop tag - it is also worth adding website tag
  • in some cases something is clearly not a shop (shop=factory_producing_widgets is likely man_made=works)
  • needed and valid shop value that should be documented at OSM wiki

Some may require resurvey, if one is luckily in your area you can check it. Or you can create a note and wait for local mapper to resurvey it.
Contacting original mapper may make sense.

Remember, it is better to not edit than break data in case of tagflidling - create note if unclear or unsure.

Let me know if this list is useful but outdated (I will setup refreshing it in such case) or pointless/problematic (I can delete it if it is causing more problems than benefits).

Some improvements can be made to this list… Mayvbe mark cases with nearby notes opened already so these can be skipped for now? And mark cases where website link is available so these can be processed first?
Cases on "entries from list of suspicious ones: " list can get explanations why this values are treated as invalid. Maybe more.

(helping here is useful as it allows to reduce number of not needed and pointless top-level shop values, on 2023-08-14 we had 11 215 distinct shop values, vast majority bogus, broken or not needed. Reviewing such lists also allows us to spot missing shop values, problems with documentation and presets. Repeated appearance of shop value may indicate that wiki or presets should be improved. Maybe iD translation is bad or requires additional aliases for easier search? Maybe OSM wiki would benefit from translating it to local language or being more clear?)

(I can also generate such listing for other areas, let me know if someone is interested)

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I saw one or two items, which I think I could fix remotely. Many of the “unknown” are not clear how up to date they are. Can you add the date to the list where the entry was created and last modified? Especially for smaller shops added before the pandemic it is unclear whether they still exist.

To my undertstanding we still have a generic handling of shop=*, which would simply show a dot and the name on the map. Not that back as a fallback.

If someone can confirm that a shop is still around and place it in a meanwhile established category, then great.

As many of these items require local checks, I am not that confident that a global list is useful. Can you feed that list into StreetComplete? This would increase the chance of someone being in proximity.

For getting an overview of findings, a map based list for example in osmose would be great.

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StreetComplete asks already about shop=yes and starting to ask about some known unclear shop values is on my TODO list.

Though asking about all cases here is not a good idea - some values may be valid, just not documented. In such case StreetComplete would be breaking data.

I am also opening some notes like Note: 3805328 | OpenStreetMap with hope of reaching some local mappers, including StreetComplete mappers.