[OSM-newbies] Area and building

[Sebastian Klein]

Xan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a trouble: in my zone, there is police building but the police 
> has also an area near this building. How can I tag that: a building with 
> amenity=police, an area with amenity=police and a building, ?


This area, is it where people would normally go to see the police or is 
it more a deposit area (for personnel only)? If it is the latter, you 
could just use the operator=* tag.

The proper way to tag a situation like that it the site relation [1]. 
However in this simple case I wouldn't bother.

[1] <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site>

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Sebastian