> On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Bryan Housel <[email protected]> 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 Mall”: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/256668041 > (both of those are really shopping centers, not malls)
Yea. I tagged the local shopping centre here as a mall, because it has mall in the title ><. But I will be changing that. > > Anyway, I avoid the `shop=mall` and `shop=shopping_centre` completely. I > usually tag `landuse=retail` for the area and `building=retail` for the > buildings. Me too, until realizing we have both these these tags. I love landuse=＊so much. > > IMO, `shop=*` should really just be for a single shop. Yea - the mall seems more like retail=* sub tag stuff,if one exists. Javbw. > > > > >> On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> >> 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 >> restaurants and other eating facilities, while a shopping center doesn't >> have to (but could have). I think small sets of shops with collective >> parking won't qualify as "mall" but they might constitute a shopping center. >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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