2016-06-30 9:42 GMT+02:00 Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com>: > ref=* would be better, as it's already understood by a lot of other tools > and renderers.
+1, also, ref is already referring to a number, so ref:store:num seems unneccessarily complicated, so even if you should opt for a more structured tag than "ref" you should likely use "ref:shop" and not "ref:shop:num". (Another point: "num" sounds like "numeric", but maybe a shop ref goes something like B45T, i.e. is alphanumeric). I have looked at taginfo usage (worldwide). These are the current numbers: ref=* and shop=* -- 10567 ref:shop:num -- 121 ref:shop -- 2 If you put a ref on a shop it is clear that the ref refers to the shop. If it isn't clear where the ref refers to (e.g. a building, another business or amenity etc.) there is something wrong with the mapping and it combines several objects from the real world into one osm object. You should then separate these objects because also other tags might be ambiguous (e.g. name, wikipedia. start_date). Cheers, Martin
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