[Talk-GB] Grouping related buildings in a relation

[Tom Chance]

Graham,

I think the standard practice is to draw an area around the hospital grounds
and tag that as amenity=hospital + name=whatever then tag the buildings
within it as building=yes (or anything more specific) with optional names.

This is certainly the approach I have taken.

Regards,
Tom


On 28 May 2010 11:29, Graham Stewart <graham at dalmuti.net> wrote:

> What is the correct way to group a collection of buildings into a
> relation when they are all part of the same institution?
>
> I traced (from OS StreetView) the seven buildings of the Queen Elizabeth
> Hospital in Gateshead:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.93834&lon=-1.57941&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
>
> I've tagged each building as building=yes and placed them in the
> relation.
> Then I tagged the relation as amenity=hospital+building=yes+name=Queen
> Elizabeth Hospital
>
> But now Mapnik and Osmarender don't display a name or the hospital POI
> icon, which rather defeats the purpose.
>
> What is the usual approach to this?
>
> The Wiki for amenity=hospital suggests:
>
> "If you have a large hospital campus with multiple buildings, consider
> combining them into a relation instead of tagging each individual
> building to be a hospital"
> -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dhospital
>
> ..which I thought was what I had done. Should I also add a POI node with
> amenity=hospital somewhere amongst the buildings? That seems a bit
> redundant.
>
> Thanks,
> GrahamS
>
> PS I'm a new OSMer, so apologies if this is really obvious.
>
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