Paul,
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall your first two examples are
malls, the third one would not be a mall.
Volker
On 21 October 2014 07:57, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
I'm thinking this is a shopping mall
Isn't shopping centre a collection of disparate stores grouped together for
connivence (same parking lot), whereas a mall is a singular large (or several
large) buildings full of little shops, primarily accessed by a pedestrian
Thoroughfare in the center?
To me the defining characteristic is
The second is in no way, shape or form, a mall, in the modern usage of Mall'
to define a shopping plaza destination. The word mall can also define a
pedestrian walkway with shops, But the singular noun of Mall - meaning a
large pedestrian centric shopping plaza - is very different than 5 shops
2014-10-21 2:04 GMT+02:00 Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com:
+1 for leisure=scuba_diving_attraction or better yet, leisure=divespot and
define the attraction or divespot further with subkeys
I prefer leisure=divespot or dive_spot (?) or leisure=dive_site
This could still be coupled
2014-10-21 2:12 GMT+02:00 Dave Swarthout daveswarth...@gmail.com:
I don't think there's much difference in reality as both sell paper, pens,
ink and etc. However, the newer office supply places like Staples and
Office Max are superstores that sell desks, computers, and other office
furniture
On 21/10/2014 05:24, Toby Murray wrote:
... I considered Staples to be different enough to deserve a different
tag. I am not convinced that I am right... just stating at how I
arrived at my tagging decision.
... that was pretty much my thought process with shop=office_supplies too.
I'd be
We are not about to import any dataset instead we will manually upload the
data to osm.
Cheers,
Megha
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-10-19 7:10 GMT+02:00 Megha Shrestha meghashrest...@gmail.com:
Thank you for the suggestion. These
2014-10-21 10:27 GMT+02:00 Megha Shrestha meghashrest...@gmail.com:
We are not about to import any dataset instead we will manually upload the
data to osm.
how did you collect the data, e.g. about landownership, the numbers of male
and female workers, etc.?
Cheers,
Martin
2014-10-20 19:13 GMT+02:00 Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at:
Most known caves are dry. I know because I have been in thousands of them.
being dry doesn't mean they are not water-related. beaches also often are
dry.
please don't take wikipedia as
your one and only reference.
I
We collected the data from field survey.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-10-21 10:27 GMT+02:00 Megha Shrestha meghashrest...@gmail.com:
We are not about to import any dataset instead we will manually upload
the data to osm.
how
The third is functionally an esplanade (far, far more people walk it than
drive it), and it's official name is the Portland Mall. Originally it only
had bus lanes on it, but Portland being too cheap to install bus traps and
not exactly having the most rigorous enforcement decided to add a third
I agree with Matthjis--I don't see much of a clearly defined and widely
agreed on difference between the two. Given that, and the small usage of
shopping_centre, I agree with should deprecate shopping_centre.
Cheers, Brad
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
To me analyzing the given examples it seems as if a mall was necessarily a
closed place while a shopping center would/could have outdoor connectivity.
They appear to be similar as they both have several independent shops and
collective facilities like toilets and parking. Maybe a mall has to have
Hallo,
I would like to extend the voting period on my proposal, since it only has 9
votes at the moment. How much more time should I give it. 1 Week? 2 Weeks?
Also, please leave your vote and/or comment on the discussion page if you
like.
Best regards
Hubert
From: Hubert
On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 23:24 -0500, Toby Murray wrote:
I know I have used office_supply for Staples. When I looked it up in
the wiki, the stationery page did not include the examples of the
office superstores and my impression was that it was intended for
smaller shops, including the Hallmark
On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 22:37 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote:
I haven't noticed one for several years, but there used to be stores
that specialized in selling greeting cards and small ornamental gifts.
Hallmark greeting cards had a retail chain.
There are lots of these around, I have not noticed
On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
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To me analyzing the given examples it seems as if a mall was
Your description of a mall as an enclosed place makes sense to me, but where I
live they seem to call anything a “mall”.
Here is the Watchung Square Mall”: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258702838
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258702838
and the “Valley Mall”:
On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote:
Your description of a mall as an enclosed place makes sense to me, but where
I live they seem to call anything a “mall”.
Here is the Watchung Square Mall”: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258702838
and the “Valley
A few points:
* OSM standard is British English. Shopping Centre is standard British
English for an enclosed pedestrian space with lots of shops. Historically these
have been covered, but this is changing to a simulated street environment (in
UK Liverpool One the Arc at Bury St Edmunds
To me analyzing the given examples it seems as if a mall was necessarily a
closed place while a shopping center would/could have outdoor connectivity.
They appear to be similar as they both have several independent shops and
collective facilities like toilets and parking. Maybe a mall has to
2014-10-21 15:39 GMT+02:00 Jerry Clough - OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk:
- Use of the shop tag is inherently problematic. These are not shops
but retail areas. At the moment whenever I do any kind of retail analytical
query I have to do AND NOT IN (shop='mall'). I would prefer to use
On 21/10/2014 12:06, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
I agree with Matthjis--I don't see much of a clearly defined and
widely agreed on difference between the two. Given that, and the small
usage of shopping_centre, I agree with should deprecate shopping_centre.
Just chipping in to say that 'mall' is
As Dudley said, Haulage contractor is standard British-English for firms (and
individuals) who own and operate Heavy Goods Vehicles (over 3.5 t IIRC) to
transport a whole range of loads. As others have said logistics is about the
whole chain of processes rather than specifically individual
Well... here's my experience with user Ulamm. He sure has taken away part
of the fun it was contributing to this project.
I've noticed he made some changes to the use_sidepath
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:bicycle%3Duse_sidepath wiki. I
asked him in a private mail for the reason of the
+10
It is frustrating and I only rarely change the wiki.
I always try to be polite and get into contact but only once. If there
is no real reaction and only more pages are changed or directly changed
after the revert, I would revert them all immediately as it is a problem
if wrong/undiscussed
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 02:21 -0700, Megha Shrestha wrote:
We collected the data from field survey.
By field survey what do you mean?
You can obviously collect data from what you can see, from signs.
But my concern is much of this information could be seen as commercially
sensitive, where does
2014-10-21 18:52 GMT+02:00 fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com:
it is a problem
if wrong/undiscussed changes are spread.
while I agree, I'd like to point out that this is not an isolated problem
with a single user, it is systematically happening all the time. I believe
that the overwhelming
Yes, I’m aware of
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/highway=junction
However,
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/highway=junction
focuses on the tagging style of intersecting roads and proposes to not
connect them anymore and so avoid turn restrictions. But
Pre up: I have worked with him on the soft_lane proposal - results pending.
I think his intentions are good and that he just takes the be bold part of
the wiki too seriously, or the changes he makes are too large.
That said, I believe that talking to others is an important part of a
Community
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On Oct 21, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote:
I was also thinking that landuse=retail makes more sense than either mall or
shopping_centre. If you have a big building enclosing lots of shops, you can
tag it building=mall.
johnw, I
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