[Tagging] Wiki edits, building tags on nodes versus areas

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi,
I don't see justification to edit it widely in the wiki without prior
discussion, but I oppose your interpretation of this conflicting with
the "one feature, one osm element" principle.

In fact a shop is a different entity than a building.
A shop can move to another building while staying the same shop. A shop
can close and therefore vanish without the building to vanish, and a new
shop, cafe, restaurant or whatever; entirely independent from the old
shop can open in the same building later.

The building is still the same, the old one. The shop didn't change,
it's a different shop now.

On top of that a building may have offices on the first floor
additionally to the shop in the basement, or even flats or appartments -
which are possible to map as well.

Therefore yes, I see a justification for that way of tagging; but I
don't see any justification to change the wiki without broad discussion
about it.

regards
Peter

Am 04.06.2014 18:43, schrieb Andrew Hain:
> Over the past few days there have been a number of wiki edits (mainly but 
> not entirely in German) stating that shop=* and similar tags, contrary to 
> the “One feature, one OSM element” principle [1], should only ever be put 
> on nodes and not on building polygons. I’ve commented on an affected talk 
> page without any response.
> 
> Is there any justification for these edits?
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element
> 
> 
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