[Talk-GB] Marking closed businesses

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

On Thursday, 7 March 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Fuanctioning restaurants and food-related shops are listed in the FHRS
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Food_Hygiene_Rating_System
> 
> As an aside, it can be useful to retain the old name of a
> restaurant/pub/takeaway so that other mappers don't re-add it...can someone
> remind me what tag they'd use for an ex-name please?

Absolutely, a closed shop is also a useful landmark. Somebody using it is not necessarily looking to buy something. 

For example the local Toys r us is still displaying the logos. Obviously it is tagged as disused:shop.

Phil (trigpoint)
> 
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:24 David Woolley, <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/03/2019 09:47, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> > >
> > > Near where I am are some mapped businesses properties which have closed,
> > > primarily shops, but also a couple of restaurants.
> > >
> >
> > There is more than one common way of doing this.
> >
> > Is the building exclusively used by the business?  If not, I would map
> > the business as a point, or as a polygon covering the plan view area
> > occupied by the business, and not tag the building with business details.
> >
> > >
> > > a) A building holds a functioning business (that isn't a shop or
> > restaurant
> > The appropriate tagging for the functioning business, e.g. office=*
> >
> > > b) A building holds a functioning shop
> >
> > shop=yes
> >
> > > c) A building holds a functioning restaurant
> >
> > amenity=restaurant
> >
> > > d) A building is a former business property (ceased
> > > trading/closed/moved) with no new business taking it's spot
> >
> > shop=vacant
> >
> > or
> >
> > disused:shop=<old shop type>
> > disused:amenity=restaurant
> >
> > >
> > > As a side note, I've been using Street Complete on Android. Is it worth
> > > asking the Street Complete developers to add information about
> > > businesses to their collection data, if they aren't already?
> >
> > I've never heard of that, so I've no idea what the developer's
> > objectives were.  I'm not aware of any Android tool that I would
> > recommend to someone who was not experienced with one of the big three
> > PC editors.
> >
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