Well if you fire up iD and start typing Home Depot, Lowes, Menards or Ace Hardware, they all end up with shop=doityourself.
The doityourself tag has always seemed a little awkward to me for some reason. I feel like Home Depot makes a good chunk of their money on professional contractors who buy supplies there. This is - by definition - NOT doing it yourself :) This is why I have tended to use shop=hardware myself so a chunk of those 148 might be my doing. But really I have no idea if that is correct or not. Toby On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a difficult choice, I agree. In my own tagging I use shop=hardware > if tools and fasteners are the main items sold. A doityourself shop, like > Home Depot, also sells these things but has a wide variety of building or > construction materials that are the main items being sold. Judging which > category less well known shops fall into is often only a guess. > > When I was younger Home Depot and other large shops like it didn't exist. > There were only "hardware stores" where one could buy tools,nuts, bolts, > locks, and assorted kitchen and bath furnishings. For anything beyond that > one had to go to a building supply store. Now we are in the era of > superstores and distinctions have gotten fuzzy. Maybe providing guidance in > the Wiki about how to tag certain well known chains would be useful? For > example, I would tag Ace Hardware as a shop=hardware while Lowes and Home > Depot would get the shop=doityourself tag. > > This is not the answer you're looking for but I'm not sure there is one > correct answer to this issue. > > Cheers, > Dave > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> This email has been sent from a > virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> > <#1157201294_DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Matthijs Melissen < > i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We currently have separate tags for shop=doityourself (37 857 >> instances) and shop=hardware (24 674 instances). >> >> The OSM wiki gives the following definitions: >> >> Do-it-yourself: >> | Do-It-Yourself-stores (DIY for short) are similar to hardware stores, >> except >> | they are generally larger and stock a wider range of products. >> | Products sold may include hand tools, power tools, self-assembly >> furniture, >> | decorating products, bathroom and kitchen furniture and fittings, garden >> | furniture, electrical goods, fencing, flooring, and more. >> >> Hardware: >> | A hardware store, sometimes known as an ironmongers shop in the UK, is >> | where you can buy screws and bolts, nails, hooks and other metal >> materials as >> | well as metal tools. >> | A hardware shop will often stock a wide range of products which can >> include >> | building, electrical, plumbing supplies, garden tools, power tools, >> kitchenware, >> | homeware, locks, keys, and a key-cutting. Where these types of >> product/service >> | are supplied in isolation, a different tag may be more appropriate. >> >> As you can see, these definitions are quite similar. Not surprisingly, >> taggers have problems with these definitions too. Some examples >> * Home Depot in the US is tagged home depot 1161 times as >> shop=doityourself, but also 148 times as shop=hardware. >> * True Value, according to the wiki a prototypical American hardware >> store, is tagged 74 times as shop=doityourself and 106 times as >> shop=hardware. >> * The Dutch shop Hubo, which might fit the Hardware definition better, >> is tagged 23 times as shop=doityourself and only 4 times as >> shop=hardware. >> >> Would it make sense to keep distinguishing between shop=doityourself >> and shop=hardware? If so, how could we make the difference more >> precise? >> >> -- Matthijs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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