2014-10-25 20:14 GMT+01:00 ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com>: > 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?
This may have been discussed heavily elsewhere, I don't know. My own opinion is that if you need something to be _inside_ something else, there's no point trying to do that just with nodes, since areas are perfect for the job! Dan _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb