Where to draw the line what appears in shop overlay and what not?

[mss]

Use case
Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts, etc. can't be added (and verified) via the app. Admittedly they aren't really shops but neither are some other amenities like kindergartens. Small guest houses are often located where small shops could be and it would be useful if one could just add them like the rest without switching apps.

Proposed Solution
I think these types of amenities should be available:

• tourism=hotel
• tourism=motel
• tourism=hostel
• tourism=guest_house
• maybe others

[westnordost]

Related #5065 (comment) and following comments.

So, in that regard, since hotels, motels, ... generally do not occupy shop spaces but rather either are purpose-built (many hotels) or occupy otherwise residential/office space, they are not included in the list. It should not be surprising to not find these POIs in the shop overlay, given its name. Retirement homes, hospitals, schools etc. are also not included.

[mss]

Fair enough, I can continue using EveryDoor for these POIs.

But I'd like to point out that nowadays Churches are also included in the Shop Overlay. As are Kindergartens/Preschools and Corporate Offices. None of these are Shops and follow similar occupation patterns in dense metropolitan areas as Guest Houses, BnBs, and small hotels.

An example where this would have been useful is the changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/138065994 in which I switched to EveryDoor to verify a Guest House and removed another. In the latter case the space was repurposed as a shop again. I earlier added the seemingly missing shop (and created a duplicate POI) in SC and only later discovered in ED that it already existed but just wasn't shown in SC when I checked that street.

[westnordost]

Hm, well as written, a line has to be drawn which POIs to include and which not somewhere, right?

[mnalis]

line has to be drawn which POIs to include and which not somewhere, right?

Probably, but it does needs some work to draw that line, as OSM tagging is a kind of a mess. Probably it would be easiest to copy it from project that has already put in the work to do it?

For example, Every Door has amenities mode (similar to Shop overlay in SC) and micromapping mode (similar to proposed street furniture overlay in SC). The line drawn there seems pretty good to me.

AFAICT, basically it has a whitelist/blacklist list of real amenities (i.e. places where people would want to get in to buy something or get some service or to sleep etc.) and everything else (like streetlamps, benches, etc) falls under micromapping.

See all const in https://github.com/Zverik/every_door/blob/main/lib/helpers/good_tags.dart

e.g. kMainKeys defines (among others) that amenity=* is "real amenity", unless its value is present in wrongAmenities (like amenity=bench, waste_basket, telephone...) - that repeats for other keys too like tourism=*, leisure=* etc.

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Maybe @Zverik would be interested to have that inclusion/exclusion lists for "amenities vs. micromapping" transformed into some generic language-independent format like JSON, so it can then easily be shared by multiple independent projects? Or perhaps a flag might be introduced into id-tagging-presets to indicate if the tag is "real" amenity?

[westnordost]

I am just going to tag @tyrasd here too because IMO such a distinction of shops/amenities/places vs. micro-mapped things would be useful for any consumer of id tagging presets: All editors, but also general-purpose renderers, I'd say. So it sounds useful to have this information directly in the presets themselves, no?

As for naming, I'd suggest "place" vs "furniture":
Hospital, hairdresser, shoemaker, office, church, hotel, café, ... are places.
Street lamps, benches, ATMs, vending machines, bicycle parkings, defibrillators, bollards, traffic signs, trees, ... are not places.

As far as definition goes, I guess what (most?) places have in common is that you can go inside.

[mnalis]

As for naming, I'd suggest "place" vs "furniture":
Hospital, hairdresser, shoemaker, office, church, hotel, café, ... are places.
Street lamps, benches, ATMs, vending machines, bicycle parkings, defibrillators, bollards, traffic signs, trees, ... are not places.

makes sense to me.

As far as definition goes, I guess what (most?) places have in common is that you can go inside.

Most, but not all. For example, I'd consider amenity=fast_food (or shop=kiosk) as a "place", even if I cannot go inside, but they would just take my order and give it to me to take away.

[1ec5]

When gathering statistics locally, I’ve used the rule of thumb that a POI is something that a user might want to search for, thus anything that typically has a name. From that I would exclude roads and boundaries, but otherwise this heuristic has worked well for me. I include bus stops, art installations, and ATMs (named after the operator) based on local custom, which might differ in other places.

[westnordost]

True, good observation. But of course, place=* also has a name, so (can) have buildings, artworks, roads, landuses etc.
Then on the other hand, small shops (like kiosks) often do not have a (signed) name.

Also, as far as I know, it is not possible to search for iD presets that could have a name, because the name field is universal, i.e. addable to all presets.

[Zverik]

To me (and Every Door mostly), POI is a venue manned by people or providing paid services. So, shops, churches, vending machines and parcel delivery machines, but not post boxes or garbage bins.

[1ec5]

If we don’t count post boxes and garbage bins as POIs, how could we ever hope to match Overture’s advertised POI count? 😛

The reality is probably that the true definition of a POI depends on the audience: what a consumer considers a POI may differ from what a government considers a POI, and a data vendor would have their own definition too. So I think there’s some room for StreetComplete to have its own opinion.

[Zverik]

Well all of these are POI. POI are tagged points. Traffic lights, trees, stop signs can be considered POI.

What I meant are things to pay special attention to, which most likely have opening hours, payment options, names obviously, can be located inside buildings etc etc.