<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 13, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">in OSM, distribution warehouses are industrial<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What do they make there? Isn’t distribution “commerce”? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A factory that manufactures IKEA furniture is industrial. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Their Main distribution warehouse seems “commercial” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Their shops are retail. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Their big distribution buildings are zoned “industrial” though… I guess I’m wrong.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/34.9845/-118.9416" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/34.9845/-118.9416</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What about delivery substations? these are medium-sized package sort facilities.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kuroneko Yamato (with the black cat carrying a kitten) is Japan’s DHL or FedEx. They are everywhere.</div><div class=""><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/EEvkFEJpVJ52" class="">https://goo.gl/maps/EEvkFEJpVJ52</a></div><div class="">This is a hub warehouse, for distribution to my region.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seino is a regional distribution company. This is a big hub for them. </div><div class=""><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/1W8NeT57ns72" class="">https://goo.gl/maps/1W8NeT57ns72</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then there are the local centers. </div><div class=""><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/o7qLk8L9cg72" class="">https://goo.gl/maps/o7qLk8L9cg72</a></div><div class="">here is my kuroneko center. It has a small office for you to pick up packages and a warehouse for the local (tiny) trucks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The local centers do not seem industrial at all. Perhaps the big regional ones are. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the area I live in is close to Tokyo, but “out in the rural area” with cheap land near the expressway, so it is used heavily for distribution centers for shippers big and small. There are possibly hundreds of distribution warehouses just in my sleepy corner of Japan. I don’t want to tag them incorrectly. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And Japan has a very large amount of local sort centers. There are 4 within about 7 KM of me just for Kuroneko, which is very different from UPS or FedEx in the US. And they don’t seem industrial at all. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>