2013/1/2 Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk>: > In the UK many premiere inns are converted office buildings.
yes, offices don't have a lot of requirements, also depending on the intended standard (e.g. if you need air conditioning but you don't want to see it, and a certain floor height, you might get problems, but if you decide not to put aircon or to have visible tubes it might be possible, etc.). For certain locations (central=expensive) and use cases you might tear down to building and build it anew, for instance at Berlin Alexanderplatz they were tearing down 10 storey office buildings to rebuild new office buildings because the structure (axxis distances) of the 60ies socialist buildings weren't considered to be reasonably convertible to current office requirements (you would have wasted too much space for certain (asked for) configurations which was too expensive there). At least that's what they told me at Treuhand when I asked them about. > How does one go about mapping a row of terraced houses, where a single > building will contain 20 our so houses, often with a corner shop at the end? > I would have drawn each house to maintain numbering, is that the correct > way? +1, yes I'd map single houses (connected on the sides) and not consider them "one big building" (I am not very familiar with English terraced houses, but I guess they are structurally independent, i.e. they do have each their own lateral walls?). If they are indeed "one big building" you could use building parts to model the single units/houses. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging