[OSM-talk] Retail, Commercial & Industrial

[Collinson Mike]

The definitions would be the same as 'abutters' tag I think? I 
thought I found a detailed description on the wiki but can't find it 
again.  I had to read that carefully, in my case my initial mistake 
was to think of commercial as being factories and warehouses 
'industrial'.  I'd definitely think of out-of-town shopping complexes 
as 'retail'.  I'd also mentally put the word 'predominantly' into all 
the descriptions so a business park with a few industrial buildings 
would still be 'commercial'.

residential = people live here
retail = I can buy stuff here
commercial = offices, including business parks
industrial = people store or hit things with hammers here

Mike
Oz


At 10:26 AM 7/09/2006, Robert Scott wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Does anyone else find the area definitions of landuse={commercial,industrial}
>to make things quite difficult? Is this categorisation some kind of
>geographical/legal standard that I don't know about?
>
>Commercial - areas that deal in commerce. That must include out-of-town
>shopping complexes. But what about an area in a city that is full of high
>rise offices? That's commerce too - but I find it difficult to put the two in
>the same basket.
>
>What about industrial estates / business parks? A business park 
>would probably
>be commercial whereas industrial estates would be industrial. Where's the
>dividing line between the two? There are many business parks that I have
>trouble categorising - they may be mostly offices but have a few industrial
>buildings in them.
>
>When someone sees 'commercial' on a map, are they to think "ooh, I can go
>shopping there" and then get sorely disappointed when they end up in a
>business park? Or worse, a slightly pimped up industrial estate that I had
>trouble deciding on the classification of?
>
>Am I to mark all business parks as industrial estates to stop this happening?
>
>Would it be sensible to have a landuse=retail tag to mark shopping complexes
>(and generally businesses that have a public face), so that business parks &
>urban areas of high rise offices can undisputably have landuse=commercial and
>industrial estates have landuse=industrial?
>
>(I'm not that fussed about the dividing line between industrial estates &
>business parks, unless there's a chance I might hurt some sensitive land
>developer's feelings by calling his expertly planned premium business arena
>an industrial estate)
>
>
>robert.
>
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