2014-10-21 15:39 GMT+02:00 Jerry Clough - OSM <[email protected]>:
> > - 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 > landuse=retail with retail=mall or retail=shopping centre etc. We certainly > don't tag a centre of a village with a few shops as shop=village_centre. > > The centre of a village is much more than just shops, but that's another discussion ;-) I agree with you that shop=shopping_centre or mall is not a good tag, unlike shop=department_store or supermarket, these are indeed entities consisting of several shops. On the other hand, landuse doesn't seem a nice tag to me neither, as it is about the use of land, an attribute. Yes, landuse=retail and retail=mall will indicate that this land is used for a mall, but I'd consider this an indirect way of stating: "there must be some shopping mall over there", rather than explicitly naming the feature (e.g. amenity=shopping_centre would be a candidate), and I could also imagine situations where several landuse objects together form one shopping mall or centre (because they are interrupted in the middle by something else). cheers, Martin
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