shop=wool <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dwool> ... this
seems like almost exactly what I'm proposing. And is used much more
frequently <https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1pEi> than shop=yarn.
And yet for me, I never even thought to search for this. And the word
'yarn' doesn't actually appear anywhere on the page or it would have
shown up in my searches of the wiki.
It's also not referenced anywhere on the shop=sewing
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dsewing> page, which
explicitly mentions knitting needles, etc. Nor on the shop=fabric
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dfabric> nor
shop=haberdashery
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ashop%3Dhaberdashery> pages.
It seems like maybe the real problem here is that the various tags
related to the "fibre-arts" aren't all that well documented yet and not
at all well cross-referenced. Would anyone object to an attempt to
better cross-reference and distinguish these categories?
In particular it seems to me like shop=wool should encompass things like
knitting needles, and specify that it would be selling (wool) yarn, and
not wool fabric as that would fall under shop=fabric.
I would also want to drop references to yarn and knitting needles from
shop=sewing, pointing to shop=wool for that.
It seems like shop=haberdashery and shop=sewing need some further
discussion, as they seem almost impossible to distinguish from the wiki
documentation. Personally, I always thought of a haberdashery as a hat
shop?? I somehow hadn't even heard of that tag before this discussion.
Best,
Nate Wessel
Cartographer, Planner, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com <https://www.natewessel.com>
On 2023-01-03 07:51, Philip Barnes wrote:
Shops selling wool are commonly referred to as wool shops so why not
shop=wool?
Yarn doesn't seem very intuitive to me as a native English speaker.
Phil (trigpoint)
On 2 January 2023 17:14:28 GMT, Nate Wessel <n...@natewessel.com> wrote:
Howdy y'all,
I am proposing to make official a tag that is already in use to
some degree, *shop=yarn*, for shops that primarily sell yarn and
other knitting/crochet supplies. Currently the wiki has these
falling under shop=sewing. As a long-time sewer who has recently
taken up knitting, I can say with confidence that these are very
different things; though sometimes larger stores will sell both.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/yarn_shops
Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.
Thanks,
Nate Wessel
Cartographer, Planner, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com <https://www.natewessel.com>
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