[Talk-GB] Residential flat above an unconnected business

[Warin]

On 17/5/21 8:13 pm, David Woolley wrote:
> On 16/05/2021 23:41, Oliver Simmons wrote:
>> You said yourself in your previous email, OSM isn't a
>> business/similar directory, so I think mapping as nodes would be most
>> appropriate.
>
> If you have enough information to map the business as a building part, 
> you have enough information to map it as an area.  Mapping it as a 
> node is throwing away information.  That's not specifically an 
> argument for building part; it could be a pure shop= area.
>
> Doubling up on main tags is quite a common optimisation by mappers, so 
> consumers really should be prepared to handle it.


Mapping as a node maybe all that a mappers time can spare.  Not a matter 
of 'throwing away information' but maximizing the data from the mappers 
time.


I would think the majority of cases the business would occupy an 
interior room .. not building parts. If more than one room then a site 
relation?

Considering the lack of rendering such details .. a simple node maybe 
the best solution in terms of both mappers time and end result.