> Il giorno 02/ago/2014, alle ore 22:00, "John F. Eldredge" 
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> 
> To clarify, if the business entity has ah single name, or if the building has 
> a single name?


you should have distinct osm objects for the building and its occupants. 
Buildings typically are mapped as ways, get a building=* tag and in case they 
have a name, add a name-tag.

Offices (or doctors, or any other occupant) on the other hand can be mapped as 
nodes (inside the building), or overlapping way, or multipolygon relation (e.g. 
to reuse the building geometry), get their own tags (e.g. office=*, amenity=*, 
etc.) and will have their own name in their own name tag.

Another common way to map in osm is adding all kinds of tags (for different 
entities/objects) on the same geometry. I think despite this being very common 
it is a bad way of mapping, because it becomes unclear (especially to 
non-intelligent map data consumers) which tags refer to which object (while 
humans able to understand the language of the name might nonetheless be able to 
guess right/infer to which object it belongs)

cheers,
Martin
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