Apologies if these questions have already been answered, but I didn’t find anything substantial with a search.
How should closed businesses be dealt with - specifically, where the building still stands, but is currently unoccupied? Certain commercial mapping apps have a ‘permanently closed’ tag, but there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent in OSM.
OpenStreetMap Somewhere like this, we have both buildings and points. To my mind, the points should be deleted, and any useful information they contain should be integrated into the building. Am I right?
If it’s a retail thing with the branding still up you can change it to shop=vacant. If it isn’t a shopfront but the building still looks like a disused xyz then you can use the disused:lifecycle prefix to indicate that you will see an obviously disused thing if you go there.
If all traces are gone then the business related tags can be deleted. If there are any generic tags relating to the building (e.g. address tags) then those can either be left on the node or transferred to the relevant building (if it’s split up correctly). If the node is left with no tags or referrers it should be deleted.
Not necessarily, no. It’s quite common to have the actual building details (address, number of levels, possible building name etc) on the building outline, & also a / several node/s inside the building for the businesses that are there.
In case of a multiple-storey building that has a shop on the ground floor and flats above, it seems somewhat incorrect to have shop tags on the building as the shop isn’t taking up the entire building
In case of multiple-storey building with shops on several floors (e.g. shop on ground floor, nail shop above or below e.g. Node: The Final Nail (4866289424) | OpenStreetMap) we have to use at least one separate node anyway
Thank you all for the advice. I certainly hadn’t considered Jarek’s example #1, despite living next door to one, and I now have about 10 tabs of OSM Wiki to study!