I am working on what we would locally call shopping centers or strip malls.
These are a group of shops that share walls so that they are essentially one
building with multiple entrances. I have gone through several iterations of my
attempt to map them and for each one see problems. I can't seem to find a good
example. I don't really know where to look but I have tried nearby large towns
and it looks like no one is attempting to be very sophisticated about it. I am
attempting to include addressing information as well as tagging the shops and
their type. Here are the problems.
1) In this area these shops tend to be addressed with one house number (for the
building) and "suite" numbers for each shop. How should I include this in the
address. I first tried including the "suite" number under addr:unit but that
renders as all the shops having the same address (i.e. only the house number
shows). I then used the format addr:[housenumber] suite [suitenumber]. this
renders better but would it confuse routing software? I also left the unit tag
with the suite number.
2) Should I draw separate building polygons for each store even though they are
in the same building and put the shop tag and name on the building polygon? Or
should I have one building polygon with the tags on a node in the center of
each shop? I currently have it on a node in the center of the shop.
3) Where should I put the address information? I currently have it on the
entrance as the Wiki suggests but I later realized that if the entrance has the
address then there is no association with the shop since those tags are on the
node in the center of the shop.
Any help you can give would be appreciated including pointing me to good
examples.
Thanks,
Stephen
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