Hi Jez,
I am not a fan of using entrances for tagging POIs for three reasons:
- An entrance to a shop is not a shop.
- Multiple primary tags cause problems with consuming data (e.g. when
rendering). Is the point mainly an entrance or mainly a shop? In
practice, we leave this decision to a piece of software that applies a
"one fits all" rule.
- It is different from more established methods of tagging POIs as
separate points or buildings, so we end up with multiple tagging
conventions for no obvious benefit.
My own rules are to tag POIs as separate points whenever possible,
especially if they are loosely attached to a building (e.g. there are
multiple businesses in the building or the building is hired). Only when
the building has a single, well defined purpose (a pub, a purpose-built
shop) I tag POI on the building itself.
Tagging addresses on entrances is better (entrances can be actual
delivery points). But, since this still results in multiple tagging
conventions and provides a temptation to add POI information to the
entrance points later, I don't use that technique myself.
On 30/06/2020 16:02, Jez Nicholson wrote:
I notice that a number of my local shop's POI nodes have been
relocated as entrances, e.g.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2648378395 rather than them being a
node within the building outline.
Personally, I don't like tagging the whole building as 'amenity=cafe'
as it is only the downstairs of the building being used for that
purpose, which is why they were nodes.
So, is there any downside to marking the entrance? I can see that it
links the cafe node to the building better.
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