[Tagging] Nodes, Ways, and Buildings

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 7/31/2011 2:55 PM, Tom MacWright wrote:
> So the question is, after this long-winded nonsense: are the
> identities of buildings always going to be separate from the buildings
> themselves in OSM parlance? Is this a regional thing, or is it just
> with semi-sparse DC data that I'm testing with? Are other people doing
> point-in-polygon math to do what I'd like to do (having buildings
> represent places rather than material brick and mortar)?

Tags that apply to the whole building should be on the building. On the 
other hand, if an amenity occupies a small portion of the building, it 
should be mapped as a node (or maybe someone's been mapping these as 
areas inside the building area).