[Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building

James james2432 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 12:42:29 UTC 2018


Yeah I did that with the indoor tagging schema

On Wed., Nov. 28, 2018, 7:40 a.m. john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com wrote:

> Have a look at OSMand and see what it looks like.
>
> Generally it is considered bad practise to map for the renderer.
>
> As an alternative take a look at Place d'Orleans shopping center in
> Orleans Ontario each unit is mapped in outline with the appropriate tags
> added.
>
> If you look at mapping a building with floors I've seen office outlines
> before now.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, 8:00 pm Tim Elrick <osm at elrick.de wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to contribute to filling the gaps on McGill campus on OSM at
>> the moment and I ran into a problem which I haven't fund a satisfactory
>> answer for yet.
>>
>> We have several buildings on campus which are home to multiple
>> departments, all buildings have a building name.
>>
>> I looked the OSM wiki feature pages and in the OSM forum and found the
>> following approach as apparently standard procedure:
>> 1) Map building outline with building = university , name= XYZ building,
>> operator=McGill University
>> 2) Add a node inside the building for each department with
>> office=university, description=department name
>> This produces irritating blue dots in the outline of the building, see
>> https://osm.org/go/cIrNt~j2u
>>
>> When I looked at other universities, I found e.g. a node with
>> amenity=university, name=department name. But when looking at the OSM
>> wiki feature page for universities[1] it says you only should use
>> amenity=university for the whole campus.
>>
>> The office tag I found when looking for multiple businesses in one
>> building, but the blue dot aren't nice.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to map this elegantly?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Tim (aka AGeographer)
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=university
>>
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