[Talk-GB] Brewery tagging

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

David Earl wrote:
>Sent: 18 March 2009 10:43 AM
>To: Ed Loach
>Cc: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Brewery tagging
>
>On 18/03/2009 10:36, Ed Loach wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions on how best to tag breweries ...
>>
>> one in Bury St Edmunds is tagged landuse=industrial (with a visitor
>> centre attraction).
>
>That was me. It really is a factory, so I felt industrial was
>appropriate. Is there something special about beer (in geographical
>terms) - for example, would there need to be a special designation for a
>factory making stockings or a printing works?
>
>In that sense it's a bit like shop=... We could either say what kind of
>factory something is, or just group them all under one heading, but I
>don't really see that modern brewing has something about it that makes
>is individually special over any other industrial process.

yeah, the tags landuse=industrial and industrial=brewing works for me


Cheers

Andy>