[Talk-us] Tagging outdoor US shopping centers

[Peter Dobratz]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

> I am more likely to use your option 1: Each shopping center a separate
> landuse=retail, name=* covering the entire area including parking but not
> the land associated with the roadway right of way. As an example there are
> two named shopping centers at this intersection:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.36843/-122.03593


Yes, I agree that you don't want to connect the landuse polygons to the
adjacent roads.  Two adjacent landuse polygons can share nodes if there's
nothing between them.  Generally, you have the Way objects for the roads in
the center of the road and the landuse for the shopping center starts once
you get off the road and onto the property for the shopping center.

landuse=retail is for primarily stores and restaurants and
landuse=commercial is primarily for things like doctors' offices.  Using
landuse=retail for the shopping center is a great place to also put the
name tag.  You can have smaller landuse polygons that are inside of larger
"broad brush" ones.  Many of these have websites which you can add using
the website tag as well.  I also use landuse=residential to put a name tag
on a named residential housing division.

I prefer to split up the larger buildings for each store rather than just
drawing a big building polygon and putting nodes in for the stores.  See
the buildings within the following example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/178251857

--Peter
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