[Tagging] self-storage facilities

[John F. Eldredge]

Well, I was suggesting landuse=self_storage so as to include any associated driveways, although amenity=storage or amenity=self_storage would work as well.  Using self_storage rather than just storage emphasizes that these are units available to individuals, as opposed to larger-scale commercial warehouses.  From my experience, most such facilities have a fenced enclosure, with driveways to each building, although there are usually a few units accessible from outside the fence..


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Subject :Re: [Tagging] self-storage facilities
From  :mailto:neroute2 at gmail.com
Date  :Sat Dec 11 16:29:47 America/Chicago 2010


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:19 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> So, landuse=self_storage would probably be the way to tag them, using out convention of underscores as separators.  "Self-storage" is also the standard USA term for such facilities.  From my personal experience, they typically have several different sizes of enclosed spaces available, some opening directly to the outdoors (as in the photo) and some off interior hallways.

Why landuse? It's generally going to be located inside a larger
landuse area of commercial or industrial, and could be as small as a
standard office building. There is some use of
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/tags/amenity=storage but I don't know
if any (except for the ones I tagged) are used for this type of
facility.

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