Am 14.12.2010 09:35, schrieb Andre Engels: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Kenneth Pardue <[email protected]> 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? > > All methods you mention are acceptable, and applications are supposed > to handle them all.
As a late addition: in the case of navit the osm2navit converter should take care of collapsing areas with POI relevant data to nodes/points as long as navit can't route to buildings/areas/whatever. -- Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie Bremen - 53.0901°N 8.7868°E
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