<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 13 Nov 2009, at 14:23, Ian Dees wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Kate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maps2wiki@gmail.com">maps2wiki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald<br>
<<a href="mailto:shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk">shaun@shaunmcdonald.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or<br>
> area, thus the problem of multiple names isn't an issue any more. You place<br>
> the nodes of the shops roughly where they are within the shopping centre.<br>
> If you do have something that has multiple names, you are better stating<br>
> what the name is. For example if a bridge has a name, you could use name=<br>
> for the street name that runs on top of the bridge, and name:bridge for the<br>
> name of the bridge itself. I'm sure there are better examples.<br>
> Shaun<br>
<br>
If we used separate nodes, it could be possible to associated them all<br>
together and with the building using a relation. For the various<br>
pieces of a Wal-mart, I would use the "site" relation.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site</a><br>
<br>
-Kate<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Why are we tagging the individual pieces of the building? I would propose that we come up with a tag like "box_store" or something that could apply to Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc.* Sure there are other stores inside, but how do we tag malls now?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am yet to see an example of a shopping mall where someone has done every street inside, though it has been talked about on several occasions. I do have a couple of examples where every shop on a street has been added and every building in a non-covered retail park has added and named. Turn on the data layer for both.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://osm.org/go/0EEBTfiGy-">http://osm.org/go/0EEBTfiGy-</a> </div><div><a href="http://osm.org/go/evfg2Pi4C-">http://osm.org/go/evfg2Pi4C-</a></div><div><br></div><div>The main issue with shopping malls is the fact they are over several layers/levels.</div><div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<br>* Or in the US we could tag it as a church with denomination=consumerism :-)<br></div></div>
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