[Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

[Gregory Williams]

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> From: talk-gb-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
> bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ed Loach
> Sent: 18 March 2009 10:37
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-GB] Brewery tagging
> 
> Hi
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on how best to tag breweries if you only
> have a node and not a building= area? I've looked through the wiki and
> the "creating a proposal" page mentions:
> "you want a tag for a 'brewery' - consider searching for 'beer',
> 'manufacturing', 'alcohol', 'industrial', 'plant', 'works'"
> 
> I was at Farmers Brewery in Maldon last night and have tagged it as
> amenity=brewery for now, and then looked at other breweries that
sprang
> to mind to see how they were tagged. The Felstar Brewery is in a
> vineyard, so I've actually got that tagged as landuse=vineyard, and
one
> in Bury St Edmunds is tagged landuse=industrial (with a visitor centre
> attraction). Banks's (or is it Marstons these days) in Wolverhampton
> isn't tagged at all. Then I gave up searching and thought I'd ask here
> how others do it. I tried tagwatch and there are quite a few brewery=
> tags which I believe are to indicate who owns a given pub, and there
> are a couple of poi=brewery.

Yes, that's how I've been using brewery= recently, to tag who owns the
pub, e.g. brewery=Shepherd Neame, or brewery=Greene King. I've only
started doing this in the last few weeks though.