Hi In the documentation search on "one feature, one osm element". It would seem to cover the basic principles to be applied in this situation.. i suspect those looking at obstacles for new mappers would be interested to get your feedback on this.
Dudley Sent from my iPad On 24 Dec 2012, at 23:14, "Robert McLean" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am starting to add building outlines for my city, and I have a few > questions. My city has some building outlines already but probably less than > 5% is covered. > > 1. When I add a new building that contains a POI worthy entity as a > shop or school, is the recommended practice to (a) add a new node inside the > building outline with the POI data, (b) add the POI data to a node on the > building outline as the entrance, or (c) add the POI tags directly to the > building outline way? By POI data I mean the type of POI, address, telephone, > operating hours—information that would not go on a residence or simple > building, but could show up on a GPS receiver. > 2. If the tags are on the building outline and there is no additional > node with the POI tags, will mkgmap reduce the building outline to a single > node with tags for a GPS receiver? > 3. What about a large building that contains many shops, for example, > in a shopping center? I suppose all three possibilities above are possible, > so is there a recommendation? > 4. If the recommendation is tagging the building outline (the method > that seems the best to me), what do I do when I add a new building outline > when there is an existing POI node with tags? Should I edit this to add the > tags to the building, or just leave the existing node? I guess this is a > general protocol question. Is it better to edit other peoples work only to > make things consistent (especially if there is a specific recommendation for > a way to do things), or better to respect the way they have done things and > leave inconsistencies in method as they are? > 5. For all of these questions, is there written documentation that I > missed? I am talking about documentation for these specific questions—I have > seen lots of other documentation. > > Thanks for any help, > > Bob McLean > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
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