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> On Oct 21, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was also thinking that landuse=retail makes more sense than either mall or > shopping_centre. If you have a big building enclosing lots of shops, you can > tag it building=mall. > > johnw, I understand the distinction you're making (I would call your > "shopping_centre" a "strip mall", I think). But do you really hear people use > these terms without overlap? Do you have some evidence of this usage? For > example, in wikipedia, the page > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shopping_centres_in_the_United_Kingdom > distinguishes shopping centres (what you're defining as malls) from retail > parks (which you're defining as shopping centres). A strip mall is usually much smaller. It doesn't have any anchor stores. Although many of them have names, most people refer to the store itself as their destination. "I'm going to ___shop" They would never, ever, ever say "I'm going to the mall" for any of my shopping centre examples - but that would be the common term for referring to a large mall. They would also refer to the mall by name - "I love going to Hanyu Aeon!" - but almost never my def of a shopping_centre. Malls are a city-wide or regional shopping attraction, distinct from a local group of shops on the side of the road. If we want to keep these "car centric, amenity free, roadside shopping areas" (whatever you want to call them) just in landuse=retail, and kill off shopping_centre, that's fine. But the definition of mall needs to narrowed a bit to avoid this confusion. Even though there is a couple satellite shops in a retail anchor store's space - anything with a couple shops inside is in no way a mall. Most really large supermarkets have small rental spots for a bank, florist, coffee shop,, dry cleaner, or a donut shop. But 3 little stores doesn't make it a mall. A mall is a big, special place. Javbw > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:22 AM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.com> wrote: >>> >>> Your description of a mall as an enclosed place makes sense to me, but >>> where I live they seem to call anything a “mall”. >>> >>> Here is the "Watchung Square Mall”: >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258702838 >>> and the “Valley Mall”: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/256668041 >>> (both of those are really shopping centers, not malls) >> >> Yea. I tagged the local shopping centre here as a mall, because it has mall >> in the title ><. But I will be changing that. >>> >>> Anyway, I avoid the `shop=mall` and `shop=shopping_centre` completely. I >>> usually tag `landuse=retail` for the area and `building=retail` for the >>> buildings. >> >> Me too, until realizing we have both these these tags. I love landuse=＊so >> much. >>> >>> IMO, `shop=*` should really just be for a single shop. >> >> Yea - the mall seems more like retail=* sub tag stuff,if one exists. >> >> Javbw. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> To me analyzing the given examples it seems as if a mall was necessarily a >>>> closed place while a shopping center would/could have outdoor >>>> connectivity. They appear to be similar as they both have several >>>> independent shops and collective facilities like toilets and parking. >>>> Maybe a mall has to have restaurants and other eating facilities, while a >>>> shopping center doesn't have to (but could have). I think small sets of >>>> shops with collective parking won't qualify as "mall" but they might >>>> constitute a shopping center. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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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