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James Livingston wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 20/08/2009, at 10:29 AM, Andrew Ayre wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If I draw the outline of a strip mall (a connected string of shops)
this
represents several businesses together. If I then put nodes on them
and
give the nodes names Mapnik won't render the names unless they are
amenities. But not all businesses are amenities.
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I'd say that you need to tag them as what they are. If they're shops,
then use shop=*, and if it's a company's office then we need to have
a tag for that and add it to the renderers.
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I think there might be a need for a business tag. Amenities and shops
are places Joe Public would visit, but in business
parks and industrial estates most buildings would not meet these
criteria so might only get a building tag at best.<br>
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The building tag could be a multiple value tag like building, so:<br>
business=yes or<br>
business=printer or<br>
business=pr_consultant or<br>
business=logistics or<br>
business=medical_devices or<br>
...<br>
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Choose business=yes and add a name tag if thats all you know, but add
business=whatever if you know more. The extra tags like telephone
numbers, website etc would give more details. This might (eventually)
give the basis for a business directory. Renderers would render
business=* generally with the name and some business types might get an
icon too.<br>
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Is it worth pursuing?<br>
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Cheers, Chris <br>
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