2009/8/20 David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com>: > Oh, and one more thing: consider place=locality, a very useful tag. > Clearly such nodes refer to areas, often large and substantial areas, > yet to represent them as areas might often be very difficult as, > depending on the nature of the feature, they don't necessarily have > edges or firm boundaries you can map with an area, they often tend to be > fuzzy concepts. Fordham Moor in Cambridgeshire was one such I came > across recently (it's not a moor in the conventional sense BTW): > http://osm.org/go/0EQ0am7Q--
I see where you're going with this (and with the church example) and I agree up as far as you've taken it. The difference IMHO is that these are two cases where you would draw a polygon if only you knew the correct extent. Whereas I'm not convinced that you would want to give each separate shop in a mall its own private landuse=retail area. I would instead apply a single landuse=retail polygon around the entire mall complex (including access roads and parking) and tag individual buildings as shops and buildings. The shops, of course, _can_ (according to Map Features facism) be validly represented as nodes. Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Iren sind menschlich _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk