I agree with Matthjis--I don't see much of a clearly defined and widely agreed on difference between the two. Given that, and the small usage of shopping_centre, I agree with should deprecate shopping_centre.
Cheers, Brad On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > The third is functionally an esplanade (far, far more people walk it than > drive it), and it's official name is the Portland Mall. Originally it only > had bus lanes on it, but Portland being too cheap to install bus traps and > not exactly having the most rigorous enforcement decided to add a third > lane about six years ago for through and left turning cars as well to > prevent interfering with transit service. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paul, >> >> according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall your first two examples >> are malls, the third one would not be a mall. >> >> Volker >> >> On 21 October 2014 07:57, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking this is a shopping mall >>> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Eaton_Centre_HDR_style.jpg>, >>> and this is a shopping center >>> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Strip_Mall_Troy.jpg>. >>> Not to be confused with a mall <http://i.imgur.com/MDVBYKF.jpg>. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Matthijs Melissen < >>> i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> We have currently two tags with a closely related, if not identical, >>>> meaning: shop=mall (26 643 instances) and shop=shopping_centre (182 >>>> instances). >>>> >>>> Is there a difference between these two tags, or should we deprecate >>>> shop=shopping_centre in favour of shop=mall? >>>> >>>> -- Matthijs >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tagging mailing list >>>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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