Sorry, Martin, but what do you do, if you have a big multi-storey building and all you have is the door bell on the street level? Not map it? The Tuebingen example illustrates the problem. The relation has two nodes in a multipolygon as outer? That is not kosher either. Volker
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 11:21, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am Do., 6. Feb. 2020 um 11:01 Uhr schrieb Volker Schmidt < > vosc...@gmail.com>: > >> Padua, Italy, where I live, has a big university spread all over the >> place. This includes smaller sections being in apartments in buildings that >> are mainly used residentially. >> > > > yes, I am also well familiar with universities spread over many different > buildings (or sometimes just a floor of a building although I have not yet > seen an apartment used (for what? Office? lecture room? Probably not as a > lecture hall, would not be suitable)). > > Common way to map this (unfortunately) is amenity=university on all parts, > e.g. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/25074981 > > Here's an example of a (not yet complete and in some parts overcomplete) > multipolygon for the Universität Tübingen: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8639592 > (curiously, there are also node members ;-) ). > > > >> With other words "pieces" of the University come in all sizes and shapes, >> from what would be a typical campus to single apartments, where the >> "location" is the building entrance where the university institution is >> only one of many door bells. >> And I know that this is true of other universities and research >> establishments. >> This situation made me think of (mis-)using the site relation for tagging. >> >> > > yes, but if we keep the small places like the apartment as nodes, it will > not be possible to see that they are small, because a node can be any kind > of size. > > > Cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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