On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Ed Hillsman <ehills...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:04:11 +1100, Steve Bennett > <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>I think "storage" and "self-storage" imply different things. The >>former would be warehousing etc for business customers, and the latter >>for the general public. >> >>That said, I'd be inclined to go with amenity=storage for both, with >>some subtag like self_storage=yes where appropriate. We should have >>less top-level tags. > > I had been inclined to avoid amenity= because of the volume of past comments > on other proposals, concerned about the number of "amenity" values. But > amenity=storage makes sense. Because so many self-storage facilities are > businesses, owned by different companies, landuse= is less appropriate. > Amenity=storage would lie within landuse=commercial or, in some instances > landuse=industrial, with operator= or name= for the firm, and > self_storage=yes. Internal driveways, parking, buildings, and external > fences and gates could be mapped if desired.
I agree with most of what's been said- I'm fine with either amenity=storage or amenity=self-storage, so long as with the former there's a subtag. I'd also suggest that since self-storage is usually commercial, we encourage the standard set of tags for businesses, including name (or operator), hours, website, etc.) - Serge _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging