[Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

[Dale Puch]

Kate's suggestion echoed my thought as well.  Many of those are actually
seprate businesses/services and should be tagged separately anyhow.

Dale

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Kate <maps2wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Thea Clay <thea at cloudmade.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a random question... does anyone have suggestions for how I would
> > correctly tag a Super Wal-Mart? I read through the wiki but there didn’t
> > appear to be a tag that fit.
> >
> > The store in question has a 1.) a full grocery store with
> > bakery/deli/produce/dry goods, 2.) a full service hair and nail salon,
> 3.)
> > clothes and typical random household items, 4.) a pharmacy, 5.) a full
> > service car lube and tire shop, 6.) an opthamologist and RX glasses shop,
> > 7.) a garden center/nursery, 8.) a gas station and 9.) a Subway sandwich
> > shop. All of these sub-stores are located within the same building and
> are
> > part of Wal-Mart, not multiple stores located in a strip mall. Scary
> right
> > :) Is this tagged as one store (which it is in reality) or multiple
> > specialty shops?
> >
> > To complicate matters, there is a difference between a Super Wal-Mart and
> > regular Wal-Mart/Target/Big Box Store. And Super Wal-Marts all seem to
> have
> > slightly different variations on the types of shops they have in each
> store.
> >
>
> I had a similar problem trying to tag a World Market store (household
> items, furniture, groceries & wine)
>
> In your case, for the subway, I would use a separate node, even if in
> the same building.  I don't think it's good to put multiple name tags:
> * amenity = fast_food
> * name = Subway
>
> The gas station can also be separate, as I imagine the gas station is
> separate (in the parking lot):
> * amenity = fuel
>
> For the remainder, I suggest one node with multiple tags:
> * shop = supermarket
> * amenity = salon
> * shop = clothes
> * amenity = pharmacy
> * shop = car_repair
> * shop = optician
> * shop = garden_centre
>
> I'm not sure what happens when converting something like this to be
> rendered by Mapnik.  If there is an issue with that, then the database
> scripts and Mapnik stylesheets can be improved.
>
> -Kate
>
> > Best, Thea
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