Category Taxonomy Improvement

[heebj]

It is fantastic the pelias will soon release a category search. This feature is exactly what we are looking for and solves a lot of problems in our project :-) Thanks for your work!!

Unfortunately I'm not so happy with the current mapping of OSM Tags as defined in the following map: openstreetmap/config/category_map.js
A lot of information provided by OSM is lost e.g. with the current map it is not possible to search for nearby restaurants (food) without also getting grocery stores (also food).

Is this map still suject to change as mentioned in http://pelias.io/milestones/categories/index.html or is this already fixed?

I know we could run our own Pelias server and adjust the map to our needs but we are a small non-profit and would rather go with Mapzen than having to run some heavy infrastructure...

Thanks for your help!

[dianashk]

Hey, @heebj, 👋
Thanks for reporting this. We definitely intend to update the category mapping in the near future. Hopefully we can take this on for Q2 of this year. Q1 is already full of other excellent improvements. :)

When we do update the taxonomy, it will be in-line with the WOF category mapping.

Connected to pelias/pelias#406

[heebj]

Sounds great! The intended WOF taxonomy looks definitively much better.

Please let me know when I should contribute in a way.