<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br>On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Bryan Housel <<a href="mailto:bryan@7thposition.com">bryan@7thposition.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div class="">Your description of a mall as an enclosed place makes sense to me, but where I live they seem to call anything a “mall”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the "Watchung Square Mall”: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258702838" class="">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258702838</a></div><div class="">and the “Valley Mall”: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/256668041" class="">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/256668041</a></div><div class="">(both of those are really shopping centers, not malls)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yea. I tagged the local shopping centre here as a mall, because it has mall in the title ><. But I will be changing that. <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, I avoid the `shop=mall` and `shop=shopping_centre` completely. I usually tag `landuse=retail` for the area and `building=retail` for the buildings.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Me too, until realizing we have both these these tags. I love landuse=＊so much. <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMO, `shop=*` should really just be for a single shop.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yea - the mall seems more like retail=* sub tag stuff,if one exists. <div><br></div><div>Javbw. <br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">To me analyzing the given examples it seems as if a mall was necessarily a closed place while a shopping center would/could have outdoor connectivity. They appear to be similar as they both have several independent shops and collective facilities like toilets and parking. Maybe a mall has to have restaurants and other eating facilities, while a shopping center doesn't have to (but could have). I think small sets of shops with collective parking won't qualify as "mall" but they might constitute a shopping center.<br class=""></div>
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