On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Samat K Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You've misunderstood the meaning of the phrase. It is well documented on the wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Don%27t_tag_for_the_renderer In summary, "Don't deliberately tag incorrectly for the renderer". None of what has been discussed is deliberately incorrect, they are all correct and it is a matter of opinion and consensus as to which would be preferred. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
