Javbw
> On Jun 28, 2016, at 8:05 PM, jeffrey.rho...@geogr.uni-giessen.de wrote:
>
> multi-leveled buildings that include both Offices (commercial and
> University), Flats, and shops on the gorund floor.
This might be out of date, but the idea of a multi-category building tag (shops
on bottom, offices on top in a urban setting, apartments in a suburban setting,
and homes with a partitioned business inside in rural places) is not currently
defined and proposals do not get much backing because they are perceived either
too narrow/regional in their approach (too many exceptions); Too vast and
attempt to change too many existing tags to gain approval; or people have
decided to let indoor mapping take care of a floor-by-floor, room-by-room
description and let the building= tag define the "essence" of the building,
like if it was an old church or old train station. I wish there was a suitable
solution, as those 4 basic types of buildings (retail-commercial,
retail-residential, home-retail, home-commercial) are ones I come across a lot
- they are under 10 stories tall (usually 2-3) and tagging for the 3 of them
cover ~95% of mixed use structures I see.
I occasionally find home-industrial - a guy near me who runs 4 hydraulic metal
stamping machines in a garage at his house making basic bracket shapes to be
welded onto larger assemblies at bigger plants that end up in All Japanese
cars)
These kind of exceptions are the examples used to break a more rigid tagging
scheme, but something should be done to solve this.
> Is it best to set up a building, and then trow multiple ' point' objects in
> there with the tagging for the specific uses, or setting up subsections for
> each use in the buidings own tags, or something i missed entirely?
Most people choose what the building "mostly" is, such as the large 10 story
apartments here in Japan that might have shops on the first floor, especially
if that is the dominant use of the space. People then point tag everything
else. If in doubt, building=yes and point tag all the various offices,
restaurants, and other tenants.
If the whole building is used long term by the university (regardless of legal
ownership of the structure), then consider tagging the building as a university
building (as that is what it currently is) and then point tag all the other
things, but it sounds like the university is only renting a space, not the
entire thing.
Looking forward to other replies...
Javbw.
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