[OSM-newbies] Tagging POI's: Draw buildings, add points, or both?

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Am 14.12.2010 09:35, schrieb Andre Engels:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Kenneth Pardue <kenneth at pardue.me> wrote:
>> Now that the Bing imagery is available, it's much easier to see and draw the outlines of buildings.  I think it looks really nice in my home town to have the building shapes available on the map.  But with regards to applications that use the data for routing and searching, is it better to tag the information in the building shape, to drop a point on the map, or to draw a shape, tag it as "building" with no other information and then drop a point on top of it where the information about the business is included?
>>
>> Or, am I completely off base by drawing the buildings at all?
> 
> All methods you mention are acceptable, and applications are supposed
> to handle them all.

As a late addition: in the case of navit the osm2navit converter should
take care of collapsing areas with POI relevant data to nodes/points as
long as navit can't route to buildings/areas/whatever.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0901°N 8.7868°E

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