[OSM-newbies] Apartment Complex

[Alan Mintz]

At 2009-11-18 03:26, you wrote:
> >>I have a number of apartment complexes to map...
> >
> > When I started mapping, I asked a similar question. Based on the responses
> > I got and other features, I use a site relation. Example:
> > http://osm.org/go/TaBoJz7Oq-
>
>   Great example.   I have a question that the wiki doesn't clarify:
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site .   I believe it
>would be best to have the relation site members as inside a polygon (or
>multipolygon relation), and that would enclose all site-related members.

They are - see the closed way tagged landuse=residential, which is in the 
relation as role=boundary.


>That way as new features are mapped inside the polygon, there is no need to
>remember to add them to the relation.

This is something that would have to be done as a new feature in the 
editors - warn the user that they've added a feature within a closed way 
that is in a relation as role=boundary, which relation should ordinarily 
include all things within its boundary (like site and campus), and ask if 
they want to add the new feature to the relation.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>