David Earl wrote: > On 18/03/2009 10:36, Ed Loach wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Does anyone have suggestions on how best to tag breweries ... >> >> one in Bury St Edmunds is tagged landuse=industrial (with a visitor >> centre attraction). >> > > That was me. It really is a factory, so I felt industrial was > appropriate. Is there something special about beer (in geographical > terms) - for example, would there need to be a special designation for a > factory making stockings or a printing works? > > In that sense it's a bit like shop=... We could either say what kind of > factory something is, or just group them all under one heading, but I > don't really see that modern brewing has something about it that makes > is individually special over any other industrial process. > > > I have wondered if we need some sort of business tag. business=brewing, or business=sock_maker., so business=* This could apply to a whole host of things that otherwise don't warrant a special tag any other way. The usual name=, operator= and other such tags could apply and this could be applied to either buildings or nodes. It probably wouldn't be rendered normally, but a Chamber of Commerce or the like might like such a map, and a map version of Yellow Pages could become possible over time.
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