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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><div><div><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">>> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see</span></span><br></div><div><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">>> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere, e.g. as a</span></span><br></div><div><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">>> relation or area covering a large swathe of them.)</span></span><br></div><div>><br></div><div><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">>There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's a right hotchpotch</span></span><br></div></div></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">IMHO, it would be a waste of time, if you tried to create a single area object (do I mean "closed way"?) to be the university. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Or multipolygon, like for <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3830877">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3830877</a><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">The University is a collection of colleges, so could be a relation... ...except that each college is probably in several buildings and they may not be in a contiguous area, so each college might have to be a relation of buildings. So you would have a hierarchy of relations.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Or areas that belong to multipolygon of college and multipolygon of university (?)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">We used to enjoy the look of puzzlement on the faces of (mostly American) tourists, who stood in the middle of town, surrounded by colleges, mixed in with shops, offices and other buildings, and asked which way to go to the University.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>:) In this case university multipolygon (or closed way) covering most of city center <br></div><div>sounds correct and would help OSM-using tourists.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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