[OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas
Jan van Bekkum
jan.vanbekkum at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 15:21:00 UTC 2015
If you use a relation shouldn't it be a site relation instead of a
multipolygon?
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:24 PM Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> wrote:
> `amenity=hospital` is what makes it a proper hospital. You can create a
> node where the hospital is, or an area around the property of the
> hospital. Drawing either a node or an area is ok, but drawing areas is
> preferred if you have time for it.
>
> If the hospital is just one building, you can add `building=yes` or
> `building=hospital` to the amenity. If the hospital is a campus of
> several buildings, you can draw each building as well. `building=*`
> (anything) should make it render like a building/structure. The actual
> value of the building tag is not really used often (it’s considered a
> description of what the building looks like, not what it is), so most
> buildings are just tagged as `building=yes` unless they are really special
> somehow.
>
> Thanks, Bryan
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2015, at 9:58 AM, EthnicFood IsGreat <
> ethnicfoodisgreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to know how to tag buildings which are also amenities or shops. I
> have consulted the wiki and I cannot find a clear explanation of this. Say
> you have a building which is a hospital. One way to tag the polygon would
> be "building = hospital." Another way would be "amenity = hospital."
> Another way would be to simply tag the building as "building = yes" and
> then place a node inside the building polygon and tag the node as "amenity
> = hospital." I'm thinking in terms of how the hospital will show up in the
> various renderers. Do most renderers require the "amenity" tag in order to
> display a hospital symbol at that location? (In other words, what happens
> if I just use the "building = hospital" tag on the polygon and no amenity
> tag?) And what about the hospital name? Do I include it with the building
> polygon or the node? Or both? This is very confusing. It seems there is
> a certain amount of overlap when it comes to the application of building,
> amenity, and shop tags.
>
> Mark Bradley
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