<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ulf Lamping <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ulf.lamping@googlemail.com">ulf.lamping@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's now much easier to get the outline of a building e.g. from Yahoo.<br>
Also in densely mapped areas people looking for things to do, as the<br>
basic things like streets and such are just complete.</blockquote><div><br>Yup. I'm slowly mapping Manchester's shops and buildings.<br><br>One common pattern I've found is where you have a fairly large building, often with a fairly grandiose name like 'Louise House', which has retail units on the ground floor, and then office space, or sometimes hair salons on the middle and top floors.<br>
<br>In these circumstances, I'm mapping the building as an area (with an associated name=* tag for the building name), and mapping the shops within the retail units as nodes within the outline of the building.<br><br>
Where a single shop takes up the whole building though (eg a big department store), I'm adding the shop=* tags to the building outline itself.<br><br>Frankie<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Frankie Roberto<br><a href="http://www.frankieroberto.com">http://www.frankieroberto.com</a><br>