[Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

[Shaun McDonald]

On 13 Nov 2009, at 14:23, Ian Dees wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Kate <maps2wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald
> <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> > Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or
> > area, thus the problem of multiple names isn't an issue any more. You place
> > the nodes of the shops roughly where they are within the shopping centre.
> > If you do have something that has multiple names, you are better stating
> > what the name is. For example if a bridge has a name, you could use name=
> > for the street name that runs on top of the bridge, and name:bridge for the
> > name of the bridge itself. I'm sure there are better examples.
> > Shaun
> 
> If we used separate nodes, it could be possible to associated them all
> together and with the building using a relation.  For the various
> pieces of a Wal-mart, I would use the "site" relation.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site
> 
> -Kate
> 
> 
> Why are we tagging the individual pieces of the building? I would propose that we come up with a tag like "box_store" or something that could apply to Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc.* Sure there are other stores inside, but how do we tag malls now?

I am yet to see an example of a shopping mall where someone has done every street inside, though it has been talked about on several occasions. I do have a couple of examples where every shop on a street has been added and every building in a non-covered retail park has added and named. Turn on the data layer for both.

http://osm.org/go/0EEBTfiGy- 
http://osm.org/go/evfg2Pi4C-

The main issue with shopping malls is the fact they are over several layers/levels.

Shaun

> 
> * Or in the US we could tag it as a church with denomination=consumerism :-)
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