[Tagging] self-storage facilities

[Ed Hillsman]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:04:11 +1100, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

 >I think "storage" and "self-storage" imply different things. The
 >former would be warehousing etc for business customers, and the latter
 >for the general public.
 >
 >That said, I'd be inclined to go with amenity=storage for both, with
 >some subtag like self_storage=yes where appropriate. We should have
 >less top-level tags.

I had been inclined to avoid amenity= because of the volume of past  
comments on other proposals, concerned about the number of "amenity"  
values. But amenity=storage makes sense. Because so many self-storage  
facilities are businesses, owned by different companies, landuse= is  
less appropriate. Amenity=storage would lie within landuse=commercial  
or, in some instances landuse=industrial, with operator= or name= for  
the firm, and self_storage=yes. Internal driveways, parking,  
buildings, and external fences and gates could be mapped if desired.

Ed
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