On Thursday, 7 March 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote: > 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?
Absolutely, a closed shop is also a useful landmark. Somebody using it is not necessarily looking to buy something. For example the local Toys r us is still displaying the logos. Obviously it is tagged as disused:shop. Phil (trigpoint) > > 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 > > > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
