[OSM-newbies] Area and building

[Xan]

En/na Sebastian Klein ha escrit:
> 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.
>   

First case. Really the area contains the building: area has the 
building, a private parquing and unspecfic purpose area.

I'm worry because the whole area is really the police station, instead 
of the building itself


> 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>
>
>   

Always be specific: this way other will not do the same job twice... ;-)

Xan.
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