Russ wrote: >Sent: 26 January 2010 9:54 PM >To: Peter Millar >Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] City centre buildings > >On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 13:45 -0800, Peter Millar wrote: >> I think "Delete it and replace it with the building shape" would be the >> right answer. >> >> Please, though, copy any appropriate tags from the POI to the new shape >> before deleting the POI; I've had perfectly good information go >> missing this way. > >Agreed on both points, but I'd also point out this from the "OSM for the >blind" wiki page: > >"If you add POIs, it is better to add buildings and put an exact >entrance node at the entrance. Try not to add POIs as the estimated >middle of a building." > >Personally, I'd move the existing node to the location of the entrance, >and use that as the start point for creating the building way. Then I'd >copy relevant tags from the node to the way.
Or simply incorporate the entrance node into the building way outline. Cheers Andy > >Russ > >[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_blind > > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list >Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
