Apr 21, 2023, 17:45 by [email protected]: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 13:06, Mateusz Konieczny via talk > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apr 20, 2023, 21:54 by [email protected]: >> >> shop = vaping → shop = e-cigarette> shop = vape_store → shop = e-cigarette >> >> "vape" seems to be the more widely-used term, in the UK. >> >> but it is the same shop type, right? >> > > There is clearly a high degree of overlap. I don't use either, so > cannot say whether there is synonymy, nor which, if any, might be a > subset of the other. > >> Note that https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=e-cigarette is >> established >> value - do you think it is bad/misleading/unclear enough that we should have >> both >> shop = vape and shop = e-cigarette despite them being synonymous? >> > > I don't believe that the wiki is regarded by the community as > authoritative. Do you have evidence that it is? Or that the particular > page which you cie is the result of a community consensus? > > [other responses acknowledged] > Wiki should not be mindlessly obeyed but it at least tends to be right. And if shop=e-cigarette and vape shops or vaping shops are not actually exactly the same thing and such edit is unhelpful then it means that this page should be significantly rewritten. Do you have any reason to expect that this things are not the same? My research so far confirmed that this specific page is right, though I can ask at https://community.openstreetmap.org/ or tagging mailing list or US Slack or somewhere else if there is any real chance that these are distinct shop type.
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