David Earl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/01/2012 11:12, Gerhard Hermanns wrote: > > I'd like to do some mapping on the university of Duisburg-Essen. > > I've been using > operator=University of Cambridge > on areas marked > amenity=university > for my university mapping project, rather than trying to do anything > with relations. This makes it much more amenable to many existing > tools > to spot the commonality. > > See > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cambridge/University_of_Cambridge > and > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/davidearl/diary/15398 > > David >
I think this approach (using the operator tag rather than relations) is the best way to handle related entities that are located far apart, and don't include the large areas in between. This applies not only to universities but to many other types of entities as well. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
