Thanks for all comments! For now I created https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Duniversity#Complex_areas to document complexity discovered during this discussion.
This way we can avoid remaking entire discussion next time and problem is at least documented. Feb 6, 2020, 11:34 by vosc...@gmail.com: > 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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