Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - nodes vs. areas

2015-04-23 Thread colliar
Am 22.04.2015 um 19:12 schrieb EthnicFood IsGreat: Thanks to everyone who contributed on this subject. I think I've got a better understanding now of tagging buildings vs. tagging amenities. And sorry if I should've posted to the tagging list instead. There are so many lists. I think I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread Jan van Bekkum
If you use a relation shouldn't it be a site relation instead of a multipolygon? On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:24 PM Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: `amenity=hospital` is what makes it a proper hospital. You can create a node where the hospital is, or an area around the property of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Mark, You're correct- there's no set standard here. OSM uses folksonomies which overlap and change over time. Specifically the question of tagging amenties or shops as buildings or nodes is one where we as a community don't have complete consensus. The general feeling in the US from my

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread Bryan Housel
`amenity=hospital` is what makes it a proper hospital. You can create a node where the hospital is, or an area around the property of the hospital. Drawing either a node or an area is ok, but drawing areas is preferred if you have time for it. If the hospital is just one building, you can

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread colliar
Hey While this email would rather suit tagging@ or help.openstreetmap.org I gonna try to answer: First of all, please, do not mix building-use and building=*. The later is for the construction type which might overlap with the actual use. amenity=hospital is the tag for a hospital and needed to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread pmailkeey .
On 21 April 2015 at 16:21, Jan van Bekkum jan.vanbek...@gmail.com wrote: If you use a relation shouldn't it be a site relation instead of a multipolygon? On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:24 PM Bryan Housel br...@7thposition.com wrote: `amenity=hospital` is what makes it a proper hospital. You

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging POI's - Nodes vs. areas

2015-04-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 21.04.2015 um 17:31 schrieb pmailkeey . pmailk...@googlemail.com: No area should be plotted as a point. That's just one of OSM's nightmarish disasters. +1, basically you would tag buildings with the building tag, and either the building type or yes as value, while functions are