[OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

[James Livingston]

On 20/08/2009, at 10:29 AM, Andrew Ayre wrote:
> If I draw the outline of a strip mall (a connected string of shops)  
> this
> represents several businesses together. If I then put nodes on them  
> and
> give the nodes names Mapnik won't render the names unless they are
> amenities. But not all businesses are amenities.

I'd say that you need to tag them as what they are. If they're shops,  
then use shop=*,  and if it's a company's office then we need to have  
a tag for that and add it to the renderers.