Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Fixing Starbucks Wikipedia Tags (Was Nominatim Weakness)

2016-01-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 22.01.2016 um 03:55 schrieb Michał Brzozowski : > > There are counterexamples, like this: > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/wikipedia=pl%3AUlica%20Pu%C5%82awska%20w%20Warszawie > which actually *does* refer to a particular street. yes, but it's not a given that th

Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

2016-01-22 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 12:22 -0500, EthnicFood IsGreat wrote: > >  > I thought scrapyards and junkyards were two different entities.  This > is how I think of them. > > Scrapyards are places whose primary purpose is to buy items that are > no longer wanted (typically metal objects) and then sell th

Re: [Tagging] Tagging scrapyards, junkyards

2016-01-22 Thread Mike Thompson
In the parts of the US where I have lived (Midwest, West) these would be called "Auto Salvage" if they mainly dealt with vehicles, although "junkyard" is used colloquially. However, to be consistent, we should use the British English term to be consistent. Mike On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Ph