[OSM-newbies] Opinions on my Work

[Cartinus]

On Sunday 22 November 2009 23:12:27 James Ewen wrote:
> You also describe the whole area as amenity=school. I would call the
> building a school, not the whole grounds.

It is in common use to tag the school grounds with amenity=school and the 
school building with building=yes+amenity=school

> To save yourself some work, what about creating a big rectangle
> defining the land that the church sits on, then draw the outline of
> the church on top of that, the parking area beside the church, and use
> the layer tags to place them appropriately. You are currently trying

Absolutely bad practice!!!

The layer tag is not for painting in the renderer. The layer tag is to tell us 
things are physically above/below each other.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus