On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 07:39:49PM +0100, Dan S wrote: > 2014-10-25 17:48 GMT+01:00 ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com>: > >> >I have made a large update to the UK retail chain page: > >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Retail_Chains > > > > I am not sure that this is on topic here, but I didn't see the Post > > Office there. Presumably it now counts now as a private business, > > although perhaps not quite "retail". > > > > Our local main office has just closed and moved to a shop within a > > shop (W H Smith in this case). A quick wiki search didn't get a hit > > on how to tag this sort of sub shop, although I know, of course, that > > this is a common situation with department stores. > > > > Is there an agreed way to tag this? Just add amenity=post_office > > to the to the same node as the shop tag? Or add a second node? Or > > something else? > > Hi - > > I certainly would not add it to the same node. It's only coincidence > that the tag is a different key so it lets you do that - and after all > it may have different name=*, different opening_hours=*, etc. A second
That's true. I would have noticed when I tried to do it :-) However two nodes with standard tags don't distinguish "W H Smiths inside Post office" from the inverse. That seems a useful distinction. sub_shop=yes is ugly, but perhaps something along these lines already exists or is needed? ael _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
