> From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: [Talk-us] Apartment buildings as place=hamlet > > Hi, > > Apartment buildings imported from GNIS appear as 'place=hamlet' in Salt > Lake City (and quite possibly elsewhere). I think this is too much honor > for 99% of apartment buildings. My guess is there was no way to > distinguish these from other 'populated places' in the GNIS import - > correct? > > My question is what to do with these? I don't want to delete them - they > are valid geographical names. I am converting them into building > outlines with name= wherever I can, but leaving the GNIS points in place > for now. Any other suggestions?
I tag these with landuse=residential name=* for the complex. building=apartments or as applicable for the buildings. OSM.org mapnik will render the names when tagged like this. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
