[Talk-GB] Superfluous overall building trace when all individual parts traced?

[Russ Garrett]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 14:27, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that this apartment building has traces for both the whole building and the the house names that make it up: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/399282420
>
> What's the best way to model this? Physically it's one building though it is made up of different house names with different heights and entrances so the overall building trace feels a bit superfluous or is it?

Overlapping buildings are definitely frowned upon. In this case I
don't see why the outer way needs to exist at all, but if it does then
the "inner" buildings should be mapped with `building:part=apartments`
rather than `building=apartments`.

Cheers,

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Russ Garrett
russ at garrett.co.uk