[OSM-talk] Tagging buildings (was index of names)

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On 5/2/07, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
>
> Ahoy,
>
> On Wed, 02 May 2007 15:00:15 +0100, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz>
> wrote:
> > At 12:41 PM 2/05/2007, you wrote:
> >>p.s. building already is a map features proposal:
> >>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Building
>
> It would be good if this got some more attention. It has been sitting
> there, slowly expanding, for a while. But I think it's quite an important
> proposal, and could be a very common feature of well covered maps, as A-Z
> shows. At least Tiles at Home currently shows buildings as purple areas. When
> you think about it, buildings are often one of the easiest ways of knowing
> where you are! Oooh, there's a load of glasshouses, we must be near that
> plant nursery...
>
> > Thanks for your comments, Rob. I'd missed the proposal and have now
> added
> > some comments there.  I take your point that have both linear and area
> > ways with the same tag may complicate things for rendering.  Does anyone
> > have any other suggestion or comment?   Here where I am currently
> mapping
> > in Yorkshire, UK, there are many instances of terraced houses bearing an
> > address in addition to the street they are on, for example "Peel
> Terrace,
> > Ilkley Road".  I want to capture the name and location for search
> purposes
> > even if it is not map rendered.  It is very easy to determine where the
> > terrace starts and finishes, hence the use of a linear way.  I'm a bit
> > loathe to use an area since the depth of the terrace would normally just
> > be a guess.
>
> I think a guessed area is going to be better than a line, and you can
> always add a note to say someone with aerial photography or time on their
> hands to survey needs to go back and correct it.


source=extrapolation is a concise way of saying that.


Kind regards,
> Tom
>
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