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How do you deal with shops that have more than one category? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by une_abeille@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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Say, a book store with a café. Or a place that is a café by day and a wine bar by night.

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[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 1 year ago

it is common practice in the u.s., at least, to use two nodes for big chain drugstores, where the shop, marked chemist, often has wildly different hours from the pharmacy. they have the same name and much of the same info

[–] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Always check wiki for the particular case. E.g. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dbooks#Cafes_inside_bookshops

[–] une_abeille@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm dealing with some weird ones, like laundromat cafés and stationery shop cafés. But at least it looks like I can add an amenity tag to most of these. It's just the bar/café that I'm really struggling with.

[–] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make two POIs. Done.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

No, they are really fused together. The idea is that you drink something while waiting for your laundry to be done.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I can't find any guidance for my particular use case.

(I just wanted to make that joke, don't actually spend effort on this :P)

[–] une_abeille@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a whole section on the Canadian page in the OSM wiki for how to map Tim Horton's depending on if they're inside of other places or not, haha.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Hahaha I love that.

[–] caos@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I have asked myself the same question a few times. A very common combination here is also shoemaker + key service in one person.

[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would do a node with the following tags:
amenity = cafe
amenity = bar
opening_hours:bar = Mo-Fr 19:00-02:00
opening_hours:cafe = Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00

[+] intensely_human@lemm.ee -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to me that the data validations should be designed to only present a conflict if you have a business operating in the same place at the same time as another business.

This enables mixed-use scheduling, and it also allows the system to retain historical data about businesses that are completely replaced by other businesses, allowing for viewing of older snapshots of the map.

That being said, I have no idea what this sub is or what we’re discussing.

[–] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP is trying to accurately tag a location they were adding to OpenStreetMap, an open source alternative to services like Google Maps. The conflict arose because currently, the location can only have one tag applied to it, but the business serves multiple purpose as the same entity under the same name, which complicates the ability to accurately tag it.