Hi Talk-ZA'ers As part of developing agent-based transport planning models, we are capturing shopping centres. If you have a virtual world... agents have to virtually work, and virtually shop ;-) To that extent we're partnering with the South African Counci for Shopping Centres (SACSC). According to them, their member register accounts for 50% of south African retail space. And we're starting to capture them (all).
After capturing a few, OSM'er Werner2101 made some changes (for the better) - so if you do happen to capture shopping centres in you vicinity, this is how we will/want to capture the whole lot of them from here onwards until someone makes another valuable contribution): 1. Capture the actual shopping centre building(s) as a closed way, with the ONLY tag being - building=yes 2. Capture the parking area(s) (we have the actual capacity in many cases, courtesy of SACSC) with the following tags: - amenity=parking - capacity=?? (if you have it) - parking=surface (or multilevel, or covered, etc) 3. Next, add the internal service roads with tag - highway=service ans where applicable, add - service=parking_aisle 4. Add everything together by creating a relation with the following tags: - type=site - site=mall - name=Mall Name Centre - surface=12345 (Gross Lettable Area (GLA, in square meters) ) - website=whatever.co.za Here is one example once it is done: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1713491 Best regards, Johan
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