[Tagging] Mapping hotels on buildings or areas around buildings

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 29. Sep 2017, at 17:24, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There are basically three possibilities:
> 
> (1) An area object tagged as one of these facilities is presumed to represent
> the boundaries of the grounds, unless explicitly tagged as a building.
> 
> (2) An area object tagged as of these facilities is presumed to represent
> a building unless tagged building=no.
> 
> (3) There is no guidance on how the facility object relates to the building.
> 
> I strongly favour (1):


I’m either for 1 or 3, but prefer in many cases to have distinct objects for the building and its occupants/users, because it removes the ambiguity to which object the properties belong, e.g. name, start_date, wikipedia, architect, operator, ref, etc.

cheers,
Martin