Thanks for all the responses. It sounds like we all think in a similar way re: shop nodes/areas. Perhaps the style of "entrances as shop nodes" comes from another region? My biggest fear is that the mapper is using a main street in Brighton as a testbed.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:50 PM Ken Kilfedder <spiregrain_...@ksglp.org.uk> wrote: > I'm partial to tagging the shop/cafe as an area within the building. In > a highstreet scenario, you might have a 3 storey terrace containing mostly > flats, with cafes and Argos's on the ground floor. Very well, tag > buildings as buildings, and tag the amenities as areas (likely most of the > floorplan, except residential doors leading upstairs), and tag the doors as > entrances. > > Tagging the amenities as points within the building outline is certainly > better than adding them to the doors, though. I'd call that plain wrong. > > I've done it that way for 43 to 79 West Ham Lane E15, for example - > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.53920/0.00438 > > --- > https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?spiregrain > spiregrain_...@ksglp.org.uk > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, at 4:53 PM, Cj Malone wrote: > > >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. > > > > I agree, it also means that shops on buildings sometimes have `level`, > > which doesn't makes sense. > > > > >So, is there any downside to marking the entrance? I can see that it > links > > >the cafe node to the building better. > > > > One down side I can think of is that people might deleted the old node, > > and make a new one, and copy the tags across. Losing the history isn't > > ideal, but it's not really an argument against. > > > > Also is there a way to link entrances to a poi as a node? In the > > example below Boots has 2 entrances. Could they both be linked to the > > pharmacy? > > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/336202468#map=19/50.70033/-1.29443 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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