[OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

[David Earl]

On 20/08/2009 15:27, Peter Körner wrote:
>> IN such circumstances I use building=... or landuse=retail to outline 
>> the combined structure or area, and then use landuse=retail NODES 
>> within them to label each unit
> 
> How can a node be of any "landuse" - it's no land, just a 0-dimensional 
> point..

You're reading too much into the word, as so often happens with tags IMO.

Very often nodes are used as place-holders for more complete data later. 
Churches, for example, are often large structures but most are 
represented by nodes.

As for Map features, so what? In the absence of any formal spec for OSM 
and a vehement camp that strongly believes there shouldn't be a spec, 
the renderers are king.

David