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

[Tod Fitch]

On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:03 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote:

> Am 04.06.2014 22:35, schrieb André Pirard:
> 
> That's another new tagging system though. And even doing it like this
> breaks down when there is more than one shop in the building.
> 
> Therefore I believe that the only really clean solution is to actually
> create one OSM element per feature: one for each shop, and one for the
> building. This is also future proof - want to also tag the level the
> shop is on, or even do complete indoor mapping? You can!
> 
> Now, I don't think this should be enforced in situations where there is
> only one shop in the building and where the building itself doesn't have
> name, wikipedia or other tags different from the shop's. But for the
> general case, I'm still in favour of using multiple elements.

How would you tag a shop within a shop?

For example, here it is fairly common to have a mini-bank branch and/or coffee (StarBucks) shop within a supermarket? I don't know how the ownership details work, but the amenities are branded differently than the supermarket and the employees staffing them are uniformed differently than the supermarket employees.

I've been "terracing" the shopping center so I can tag the portion of the over all center as a supermarket then adding nodes within that for the bank, coffee place, etc. I also add a note to the inner amenity nodes stating that they are located in the supermarket, though the only user of that information is like to be the next mapper that comes along.

-Tod