Graham, I think the standard practice is to draw an area around the hospital grounds and tag that as amenity=hospital + name=whatever then tag the buildings within it as building=yes (or anything more specific) with optional names.
This is certainly the approach I have taken. Regards, Tom On 28 May 2010 11:29, Graham Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the correct way to group a collection of buildings into a > relation when they are all part of the same institution? > > I traced (from OS StreetView) the seven buildings of the Queen Elizabeth > Hospital in Gateshead: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.93834&lon=-1.57941&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF > > I've tagged each building as building=yes and placed them in the > relation. > Then I tagged the relation as amenity=hospital+building=yes+name=Queen > Elizabeth Hospital > > But now Mapnik and Osmarender don't display a name or the hospital POI > icon, which rather defeats the purpose. > > What is the usual approach to this? > > The Wiki for amenity=hospital suggests: > > "If you have a large hospital campus with multiple buildings, consider > combining them into a relation instead of tagging each individual > building to be a hospital" > -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dhospital > > ..which I thought was what I had done. Should I also add a POI node with > amenity=hospital somewhere amongst the buildings? That seems a bit > redundant. > > Thanks, > GrahamS > > PS I'm a new OSMer, so apologies if this is really obvious. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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