On 28/08/2015 9:21 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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Am 28.08.2015 um 00:20 schrieb John Willis <jo...@mac.com>:
Interestingly, most electronics shops are "on stilts" - first floor is parking,
second floor is is the main floor. In Tokyo, everything is crammed into the bottom floors
of multi-story buildings, with the supermarkets in the basements of large buildings or
malls
I would bet both of them could be described with distinctive building types.
It's pointless to call them building=retail because you can already see it from
the building user (shop tag) that it's a retail building.
Here a building=retail could be a convenience store, a grocer, a baker ...
the building style remains the same, the occupying business can and does change
over time. They may even be unoccupied for some time.
Thus building=retail is a very good tag.
Much like building=church. Even when not used as a church .. they are readily
recognise as a church building.
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A building=residential describes may styles of buildings, the style of a
residence in the tropics is much different to that in colder climates.
So too there is a wide variety of retail buildings. Both are recognisable by
their function.
If you want to further describe them ... fine .. develop sub tags, don't change
the primary tag though.
for example
building=residence
residence=queenslander ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_%28architecture%29
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