[OSM-np] Tagging compounds

[Prabhas Pokharel]

Hi all, a question that often comes up in Nepal is:
How do you tag a "compound"? (A restaurant that has multiple buildings, an
office that has the same, or more..)

I found the best answer in this
thread<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/newbies/2009-August/003476.html>
:

Draw the outline of the compound and tag that accordingly. Then draw
your buildings and only mark them as building=yes, or building=temple,
or building=embassy, or whatever actual building it is.

This is already a suggested tagging for
school/college/university/hospital compounds, so could easily apply to
the areas you describe.

"Tag that accordingly" means that we should tag that area with the name,
and other properties.

For example, I just did this for
Tamarind<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/179090406/history>in
Jhamsikhel, and the tags on the area I have put in are: area=yes,
amenity=restaurant, name=Tamarind. If you want to be super detailed, you
could also add the landuse (eg.
landuse=commercial<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Landuse>)
and the fence status of the (such as, if there is a fence,
barrier=fence<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Barrier>
).

However, I would also suggest that this shouldn't be done for every single
object that we encounter, given how common compounds are in Nepal. This
should be reserved for "larger" compounds (however you define that) and
prioritized for hospitals, schools, and public offices, rather than even
the example I used, restaurant.

If someone wants to point me to the appropriate place in the wiki to
document this, happy to. But
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal:Common_tags seems a tad too
detailed for the above info, and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nepal seems to have not
enough detail..

cheers,
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