[OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

[David Earl]

On 20/08/2009 15:30, David Earl wrote:
> 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.

Oh, and one more thing: consider place=locality, a very useful tag. 
Clearly such nodes refer to areas, often large and substantial areas, 
yet to represent them as areas might often be very difficult as, 
depending on the nature of the feature, they don't necessarily have 
edges or firm boundaries you can map with an area, they often tend to be 
fuzzy concepts. Fordham Moor in Cambridgeshire was one such I came 
across recently (it's not a moor in the conventional sense BTW):
http://osm.org/go/0EQ0am7Q--

David