[Talk-ca] Business incubator

[Yves Moisan]

Hi  Richard !

Thanx for your answer.  OK to tag addr.* to the building outline and 
remove them from the building symbol.  Still, I'd like to see an obvious 
point mark for the incubator on the map.  For now, I resort to a 
building point feature but it would be neat if there were some generic 
"commercial" or "business" symbol.  Otherwise, the map will show point 
features for individual constituent businesses in the incubator, but not 
the incubator itself, which bugs me.

You say you do the same for shopping marts.  Do you have an example I 
could look at ?  I would expect to see "Shopping Center XYZ" alongside 
the consitituent shops on the map.  So if there's a way to avoid having 
a point symbol to highlight the container name on the map, I'm all for it.

I know it's a bit of "mapping for the renderer" but I feel it's an issue.

Thanx for your help and cheers,

Yves
> Hi Yves!
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Yves Moisan <ymoisan at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Our old police station was turned into a business incubator :
> [ ... ]
>> 2) I added the addr:* info to the point symbol, not the building outline
>> (canvec import).  I'm thinking the addr.* info really belongs to the
>> building, as that's the only thing with a street address (with maybe
> I agree.  Address information generally applied to the building.
>
> The current building-polygon, with a contained building-point is an
> unusual construction.  I would expect only one database item for the
> building.  Either the point OR the polygon, but not both.
>
>> Case in point : there are close to ten businesses in there now, one being a
>> DIY shop that I would really like to map.  So should I name the building
>> outline with the name of the incubator (the container) and remove the point
>> symbol altogether, then add point symbols only for the constituent
>> businesses that are hosted in the incubator?
> That sounds great.  i use the same concept in mapping small shopping
> areas, where one building contains a row of retail stores.  Address on
> the containing building polygon, then several shop=something /
> name=SomeThing points as appropriate.
>
> Best regards and happy mapping,
>
> Richard