[Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building

[James]

tim if you need an example of how to tag multiple levels via the indoor
tagging:

I did it at St-Laurent shopping mall:

https://openlevelup.net/?l=0#18/45.42184/-75.63833

everything is tagged using the simple indoor tagging schema. I highly
suggest using JOSM filter on level=

but then again josm now has a built in filter for levels

On Wed., Nov. 28, 2018, 12:41 p.m. Tim Elrick <osm at elrick.de wrote:

> 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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