[Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by talk-gb at openstreetmap.org:

> >> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see
> >> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere, e.g. as a
> >> relation or area covering a large swathe of them.)
> >
> >There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's a right hotchpotch
> IMHO, it would be a waste of time, if you tried to create a single area object (do I mean "closed way"?) to be the university.  
>
Or multipolygon, like for https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3830877

> The University is a collection of colleges, so could be a relation...   ...except that each college is probably in several buildings and they may not be in a contiguous area, so each college might have to be a relation of buildings.  So you would have a hierarchy of relations.
>
Or areas that belong to multipolygon of college and multipolygon of university (?)

> We used to enjoy the look of puzzlement on the faces of (mostly American) tourists, who stood in the middle of town, surrounded by colleges, mixed in with shops, offices and other buildings, and asked which way to go to the University.
>
:) In this case university multipolygon (or closed way) covering most of city center 
sounds correct and would help OSM-using tourists.

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