On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Frank Cox <[email protected]> wrote: [ ... ] > It occurs to me that I may have been doing this wrong, and if so now would be > the time to find out about it. > > The Coop grocery store, for example, is laid out as a building on a large lot, > the unoccupied portion of which is customer parking. I outlined the store, > marked that as the Coop, then outlined the parking lot and marked that as > parking. However, I'm wondering if I should have outlined the whole thing > and > marked that as the Coop, then made two smaller outlines within that for the > building and the parking lot. If so, should I also name the smaller outlines > as Coop, or is naming the large outline around everything sufficient?
My preference is to draw two separate outlines. One for parking, one for the building. Tag the building as building = yes shop = greengrocer name = Coop tag the parking area as amenity = parking For "extra marks" :-) I would add a driveway from the road to the parking polygon and tag it: highway = service service = driveway And I would be sure to connect the driveway at the road and the parking polygon with a connecting node. Let's look at the Melville Theatre, shall we? http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/Melville-theatre-before.png I see a couple of problems here. The garage is folded over on itself There are stray nodes The building appears too big No parking is shown I would map it as follows. You can do better, since you are there. I did not save my edits. This is just an example. http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/Melville-theatre-after.png Reduced the building size and added parking. Does the building extend further south? Add driveway Delete stray nodes Detach building / garage Enjoy. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
