[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - entrance=*

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 14:23:09 BST 2011


2011/10/14 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/14/2011 01:18 PM, John Sturdy wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you recommending to tag subway stations as buildings in order to be
>>> able
>>> to tag their entrances?
>>
>> That seems logical to me.  Is there some problem with doing this, that
>> I haven't seen?
>
> Sorry, I forgot that a subway station does not always have to be under
> ground.
>
> Tagging an above-ground subway station as a building is common practice. For
> underground buildings, things are more difficult; we don't have an
> established way of recording the fact that they are below the surface.
> layer=-1 doesn't cut it as it is only relative to other features, not
> relative to the surface; and tunnel=yes doesn't sound right either (a subway
> station is not a tunnel, and is not usually "in a tunnel" either).


What about covered=yes?

cheers,
Martin



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