Hi all, Sometimes shop=*, office=* and craft=* do not adequately cover all business types. For example, I have mapped an industrial area that includes the following businesses:
1. A fork lift truck hire company (business to business sales). 2. A commercial bakery selling to business producing goods in their premises and delivering them to the customer. 3. A audio equipment company selling and hiring equipment to professional broadcast companies. In all three cases shop=* doesn't seem right as these are business to business sales (b2b) and are often delivered rather than picked up by the customer. I have found 3 alternate tags in use. Does anyone have a preference for me to formalise as a proposal? http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/industrial http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/industry http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/business I quite like business as it captures everything from conference suites to fork lift truck hire. Having said that, the industrial tag is most used and has an existing proposal page (but this suggests the tag is used as a refinement to the landuse=industrial tag): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/industrial Any preferences before I spend time to write a proposal page? Regards, Rob p.s. The ultimate aim is to be able to add a tag so that we have clear data in OSM (rather than just a name and address) and then file a request to get the business name rendered as currently addr:housenumber is rendered in preference to name (unless there is a tag such as craft/shop/office). This is not a tagging for the render issue - we are missing a valuable tag to describe the type of business.
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