On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Ed Avis <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Bennett <stevagewp <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >1) After tagging a building, I want to define the property boundary > >that the building sits in. In some cases, there's a landuse tag > >(landuse=commercial, residential), but how to tag a non-profit bowling > >club, a school, ...? Do you simply tag it amenity=school? > > I think so, and then tag the buildings within that area. The school > includes > the playground, it is not just the building. >
Ah yep, I eventually came to this conclusion myself. > > >2) Sometimes there is one occupied block in the middle of large areas > >of nothingness. I want to tag the block to show that there is > >something there - ie, it's not unmapped. > > I don't quite understand what you mean; if there is 'something' then why > not > just map that something? > Heh, because I don't know what it is! It's often hard to tell the difference between a large rural property, a farm, or even some kind of light industry. Maybe I can see buildings and sheds, but that's all I know. Your "area=yes" suggestion is interesting. Slightly related note, is it ok to use tags like "landuse=residential" at vastly different levels of granularity. Ie, it could be a house, a block, or what I've been doing at the moment, whole suburbs. I'm trying to sketch out the western edges of the urban sprawl of Melbourne. At the very least, it gives a guide as to which suburbs are remaining to be mapped - looking at the map gives a false impression as to the level of completeness, because unmapped shows the same as unoccupied. Steve
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