[OSM-newbies] buildings and nodes

[Robert Helvie]

OK, Thanks for the input. And for the info about how I might go about
tagging my own version.

I was leaning toward removing the single nodes anyway, so I'll go ahead and
do that and then just hope that time and technology (or at least collective
wisdom) catches up.

Cheers,

Robert

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> I've no idea what "accepted practice" is, but speaking personally (and
> I'm new here myself) I'd remove the single node when the adding the
> outline.  After all, there's only one of the building concerned, not two.
>
> In addition to it not being "correct" it will also cause confusion when
> someone does a search using the web site.  As an example, try searching
> for "Hathersage Cricket Club" (it's in Derbyshire in England).  There's
> only one of these, but because the way that marks the pitch, the
> pavilion, and the other corners of the ground are all tagged it looks
> like there are five.
>
> On a Garmin (or at least on mine) it seems that, although some items are
> available as both polygons and as points (shopping/shop is one example,
> parking another) when you do a search on the device it'll only find
> points, not polygons (this is with .IMG files created using and old
> version of mkgmap).  For example, the Victoria Centre (in
> Nottinghamshire in England) is defined as a way.  On my Garmin map it's
> visible as a sightly lighter colour background only - there's no text
> label and a search doesn't find it.
>
> A solution (to avoid adding confusion to the main map and to make
> polygon-only features searchable might be to process the .osm file used
> by mkgmap and add certain tags (such as amenity and shop) from any ways
> to the first node of that way.  The label wouldn't be optimally placed,
> but at least a POI search would find the item concerned.  Obviously,
> this .osm file altered in this way shouldn't find its way back into the
> OSM database - it's only to be used by mkgmap and then thrown away.
>
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