Fuanctioning restaurants and food-related shops are listed in the FHRS https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Food_Hygiene_Rating_System
As an aside, it can be useful to retain the old name of a restaurant/pub/takeaway so that other mappers don't re-add it...can someone remind me what tag they'd use for an ex-name please? On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:24 David Woolley, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/03/2019 09:47, Jon Spriggs wrote: > > > > Near where I am are some mapped businesses properties which have closed, > > primarily shops, but also a couple of restaurants. > > > > There is more than one common way of doing this. > > Is the building exclusively used by the business? If not, I would map > the business as a point, or as a polygon covering the plan view area > occupied by the business, and not tag the building with business details. > > > > > a) A building holds a functioning business (that isn't a shop or > restaurant > The appropriate tagging for the functioning business, e.g. office=* > > > b) A building holds a functioning shop > > shop=yes > > > c) A building holds a functioning restaurant > > amenity=restaurant > > > d) A building is a former business property (ceased > > trading/closed/moved) with no new business taking it's spot > > shop=vacant > > or > > disused:shop=<old shop type> > disused:amenity=restaurant > > > > > As a side note, I've been using Street Complete on Android. Is it worth > > asking the Street Complete developers to add information about > > businesses to their collection data, if they aren't already? > > I've never heard of that, so I've no idea what the developer's > objectives were. I'm not aware of any Android tool that I would > recommend to someone who was not experienced with one of the big three > PC editors. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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