[Talk-ca] Business incubator

[Tom Taylor]

building=commercial on the building outline for a start. My own practice 
is to add point mappings for shops. Forr a rendered view you can see my 
local shopping centre at 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/45.37936/-75.64383

Tom Taylor
tomt5454

On 26/03/2015 12:53 PM, Yves Moisan wrote:
> 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
>
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