[OSM-talk] How to show school icons ?

[Mark Wagner]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:08:00 +0100
Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> sent from a phone
> 
> > 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.

When two schools share a building, it's common for the dividing line to
shift from year to year depending on the makeup of the student body.
Mapping this as two school nodes in a building is probably the best way
of doing this, as the *entrances* to the schools are usually separate,
and don't change over time.

-- 
Mark