On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald
<sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or
> area, thus the problem of multiple names isn't an issue any more. You place
> the nodes of the shops roughly where they are within the shopping centre.
> If you do have something that has multiple names, you are better stating
> what the name is. For example if a bridge has a name, you could use name=
> for the street name that runs on top of the bridge, and name:bridge for the
> name of the bridge itself. I'm sure there are better examples.
> Shaun

If we used separate nodes, it could be possible to associated them all
together and with the building using a relation.  For the various
pieces of a Wal-mart, I would use the "site" relation.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site

-Kate

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