Jan 3, 2023, 15:16 by n...@natewessel.com: > > 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. > > Added in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:shop%3Dwool&diff=2458814&oldid=2018646 > > 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. > > Feel free to add them to "See also" section! > > 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? > > No, and in general feel free to add such "see also" (except cases like linking barely used controversial tags, but this does not apply here) > > 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. > > Note that maybe they are effectively duplicates with the same meaning in practice And in such cases OSM Wiki should not pretend that there is some systematic difference.
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