On Monday, December 13, 2010 10:34:31 am Kenneth Pardue wrote: > Now that the Bing imagery is available, it's much easier to see and draw the > outlines of buildings. I think it looks really nice in my home town to have > the building shapes available on the map. But with regards to applications > that use the data for routing and searching, is it better to tag the > information in the building shape, to drop a point on the map, or to draw a > shape, tag it as "building" with no other information and then drop a point > on top of it where the information about the business is included? > > Or, am I completely off base by drawing the buildings at all?
You've heard the line don't tag for the renderer, but it follows: don't tag for the router or any other software. I've noticed that for searching, at least with Nominatim, there isn't a difference. Both types will appear — however, while both appear, I'm not sure whether there is a bearing on ranking. Last routing software I checked (I don't recall which) only routed to POIs. But that's a flaw with the routing software, not the map. -- Samat K Jain <http://samat.org/> | GPG: 0x4A456FBA There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. -- None (548)
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