[Tagging] Pre-RFC: shop=mall versus shop=shopping_centre

[johnw]

The second is in no way, shape or form, a "mall", in the modern usage of "Mall' to define a shopping plaza destination.  The word mall can also define a pedestrian walkway with shops, But the singular noun of "Mall" - meaning a large pedestrian centric shopping plaza - is very different than 5 shops sharing a parking lot. 

check the reply I was just writing. 

if there currently is no discerning Paul's example #1 and #2, then we need to change the mall tag ASAP. Because that is totally mislabeling the stripmall / shopping_centre in example #2 - and really diluting the meaning of "mall" as it is commonly used in California and Japan.

javbw


On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall your first two examples are malls, the third one would not be a mall.
> 
> Volker
> 
> On 21 October 2014 07:57, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> I'm thinking this is a shopping mall, and this is a shopping center.  Not to be confused with a mall.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> We have currently two tags with a closely related, if not identical,
> meaning: shop=mall (26 643 instances) and shop=shopping_centre (182
> instances).
> 
> Is there a difference between these two tags, or should we deprecate
> shop=shopping_centre in favour of shop=mall?
> 
> -- Matthijs
> 
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