[OSM-talk] How to show school icons ?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 24. Nov 2017, at 11:00, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
> In general there are many possible reasons why you would want to map a 
> school with a node.  Like:
> 
> * you don't have verifiable information on the extent of the school 
> grounds.
> * the school consists of a number of rooms in a building but not the 
> whole building.
> * there are multiple schools using the same infrastructure together.


yes, case 2 and 3 could alternatively also be mapped with relations or overlapping ways (conveying more information than a node), but if you don’t know the extent it is best to use a node.

Cheers,
Martin