<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 15:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB <<a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by <a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span 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 style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span 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 style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span 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 style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><span 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 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" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3830877</a><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><div 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 style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><div 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><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Isn't this what site relations are for? That way POI nodes etc also belonging to the University can be included. <br></div><div><br></div><div>On a completely unrelated note. Does any software actually support site relations?<br></div></div></div>