[OSM-newbies] Road below a building

[David ``Smith'']

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Now that I've slept on it, I think that since in actuality the main
> building is at the same level as the road, it makes sense to split the
> building into two pieces, with one as the building proper, at layer=0, and
> the other part as something like "building=shelter", at layer=1. There is
> a wiki page discussing the use of amenity=shelter, primarily in terms of
> camping shelters of various sorts. My preference would be
> building=shelter, if that is enough different from amenity=shelter to be
> used in a more general way.
>
> Then a relation to combine the two parts into a single bank of parts
> building=yes, amenity=bank, and possibly building=shelter,
> amenity=drive-in_bank;atm. That's a lot of work for what is actually a
> pretty small bank building, but it comes closest to reflecting reality, I
> think.

That tagging makes perfect sense to me.  (Wait, that's pretty much
exactly what I suggested earlier, isn't it?)  I might start using it
for gas stations and banks with drive-throughs like you described.

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David "Smith"
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