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 understand the distinction you're making (I would call your "shopping_centre" a "strip mall", I think). But do you really hear people use these terms without overlap? Do you have some evidence of this usage? For example, in wikipedia, the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shopping_centres_in_the_United_Kingdom distinguishes shopping centres (what you're defining as malls) from retail parks (which you're defining as shopping centres). On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:22 AM, John Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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