[Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building

[Tim Elrick]

Thank you, John and James.

Place d'Orleans looks nice. And, of course, we do not map for the 
renderer. However, as the departments that I want to map are on 
different floor levels and not specifically in this or that corner of 
the building, the approach I have taken is still not pleasing.

I guess, I will read into the Simple Indoor Tagging schema then and see 
how it works out.

Cheers,
Tim

On 2018-11-28 07:37, john whelan 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
<mailto: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 <https://osm.org/go/cIrNt%7Ej2u>

     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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