Mark Williams wrote: > Chris Morley wrote: >> Mark Williams wrote: >>> I have an interesting layout; >>> >>> M >>> A FLATS >>> I-STREET- >>> N FLATS | >>> --STREET- >>> R FLATS >>> O-STREET >>> A >>> D >>> >>> Where the _flats_ are named but the streets (highway=service, I feel) >>> are not. In blocks of 3 x 8 flats with parking between road & flats. >>> Additionally the streets are marked private & the main road is one-way :) >>> >>> The entrances are set alternately, so you gain access to 1-8 & 17-24 on >>> one side of the building, but 9-16 on the other. >>> >>> This means that the streets are eg Meresmans on one side, but Waymans on >>> the other. Sort of like terraced houses, but not. The post office >>> address these including both names, yielding >>> number/block/road/village/post-town/county addresses ! >>> >>> I presume I could just put in a block & name it, or a linear feature, >>> but it won't work for navigation, or I could name the service roads & >>> call them residential with left / right tags; what would others do? >>> >> I would draw and name the flats as buildings. In your case you could >> even reuse the nodes of the main road and service roads. For >> free-standing blocks, placement and sizing are difficult without high >> resolution arial photography, but a guess (with a note so it can be >> corrected when better information is available) is better than nothing. >> >> The numbering is beyond what recorded in much of the database and >> certainly beyond what is currently rendered and I'm not sure that there >> is a consensus on how to record it. However, with the blocks on the map >> and even without numbering information, it is much easier to understand >> notices like Waymans 9-16 which commonly appear at the junction of the >> service roads with the main road. >> >> Chris >> >> > Any ideas on tags that show; map features seems reticent! > It is within Yahoo coverage so I can do this. > > Obviously name=xxx, but I can't see a building tag other than > landuse=residential, which is fairly useless as this is within a large > area of the same... I suppose I could just tuck that past them, & > interleave with parking, but it feels weak. Military=barracks is tempting ;] >
building = apartments or building = residential would work, since building with any value seems to be rendered in both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Mapnik. It doesn't seem to have made it through to Map Features yet, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Building because there wasn't a consensus on the (less important) detail. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
