Yes, I agree that this sounds reasonable. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:23 AM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If it’s 40 storeys of apartments above a 3 storey mall, use landuse=retail > for the whole mall area, and building=apartment for the residential towers. > The whole, larger mall building could probably be building=mall; it sounds > like there are several tall but narrow residential towers around or on top of > a bigger mall. > > Basically, retail is the most interesting landuse. Consider that Google shows > very few areas on its maps, but it does highlight retail areas as “areas of > interest”, because they contain the shops and restaurants that people are > most likely to want to search for. > > You only look for a new job or residence very occasionally, but most of us > like to eat out and shop once a week or more (even in poor countries like > here in Indonesia). > > Commercial areas are less important but are still more likely to be > destinations of trips, compared to residential and industrial. > > I initially disliked the idea of only tagging retail landuse for mixed-use > urban centers, but it makes sense based on the need to tag one feature on one > area, and the limited options for rendering maps with overlapping landuse. > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:11 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 08:51, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> We should map the most intensive landuse, from a map user standpoint. So a >>> mixed-use area of tall buildings would be retail. There might be condos and >>> apartments on the 20th to 40th floor, offices on the 10th 20th floors, a >>> garage for cars from floor 2 to 9, but the first couple of levels are >>> retail, therefore it is just as interesting as a 1 or 2 Storey retail >>> building for map users. >> >> >> But the wiki for apartments >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dapartments says in part >> "Some apartment blocks may also have retail outlets on the ground floor" >> with one example being >> Residential tower - The Taikoo Shing development on Hong Kong Island >> involved placing a large number of tower apartment blocks above a large >> shopping mall. >> >> So wouldn't that building you described also be a building=apartment with >> landuse=residential? >> >> Thanks >> >> Graeme >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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