Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org: > >> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see > >> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere, e.g. as a > >> relation or area covering a large swathe of them.) > > > >There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's a right hotchpotch > IMHO, it would be a waste of time, if you tried to create a single area > object (do I mean "closed way"?) to be the university. > Or multipolygon, like for https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3830877 > The University is a collection of colleges, so could be a relation... > ...except that each college is probably in several buildings and they may not > be in a contiguous area, so each college might have to be a relation of > buildings. So you would have a hierarchy of relations. > Or areas that belong to multipolygon of college and multipolygon of university (?) > We used to enjoy the look of puzzlement on the faces of (mostly American) > tourists, who stood in the middle of town, surrounded by colleges, mixed in > with shops, offices and other buildings, and asked which way to go to the > University. > :) In this case university multipolygon (or closed way) covering most of city center sounds correct and would help OSM-using tourists.
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