On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:30 AM, David Earl<da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> On 20/08/2009 15:27, Peter Körner wrote:
>>> IN such circumstances I use building=... or landuse=retail to outline
>>> the combined structure or area, and then use landuse=retail NODES
>>> within them to label each unit
>>
>> How can a node be of any "landuse" - it's no land, just a 0-dimensional
>> point..
>
> You're reading too much into the word, as so often happens with tags IMO.
>
> Very often nodes are used as place-holders for more complete data later.
> Churches, for example, are often large structures but most are
> represented by nodes.

But a church is still tagged as a church. This is not the same as
tagging a business as a "landuse node".

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