[Tagging] Points vs Polygons

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 22. Apr 2020, at 07:51, John Willis via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> -1  I really like tagging info onto landuses and buildings because that is *exactly* what I’m trying to convey - everything in this area or building is *this thing*


but the building is also a thing, it has its own properties, e.g. start_date, wikipedia reference, architect, operator, name, height, etc 

yes, often you can understand which tag belongs to which object, when several objects are represented by one OpenStreetMap object (and that’s why we tolerate this kind of representation), but strictly, you can’t even know whether the name belongs to the building or to the occupant (it “works” because you assume that buildings mostly don’t have names).

Cheers Martin