[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting – Tag:amenity=refugee_site

2020-04-23 Thread Manon Viou
Dear all,   Voting for the new proposed tag Amenity=refugee_site in now open. This proposal aims to provide a way for mapping refugee sites. Use Amenity=refugee_site for human settlement sheltering refugees and/or internally displaced

Re: [Tagging] Points vs Polygons

2020-04-23 Thread Paul Allen
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 15:08, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Am Mi., 22. Apr. 2020 um 14:12 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen >: > >> This is all true. And in an ideal world we'd map the building and its >> occupying >> object as two separate-but-coincident objects. This isn't an ideal >> world. :( >>

Re: [Tagging] Points vs Polygons

2020-04-23 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Mi., 22. Apr. 2020 um 14:12 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen : > This is all true. And in an ideal world we'd map the building and its > occupying > object as two separate-but-coincident objects. This isn't an ideal > world. :( > > Problem 2: Duplication of address info. The building has an

Re: [Tagging] Points vs Polygons

2020-04-23 Thread Warin
On 20/4/20 1:51 am, Robert Castle wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm new to OSM and have been I've been making some edits on Main Street of my hometown. All the buildings seem to have been mapped, but many of the businesses are not mapped or have incomplete information, so I've been adding in the

Re: [Tagging] Points vs Polygons

2020-04-23 Thread John Willis via Tagging
> On Apr 22, 2020, at 8:38 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > but the building is also a thing, it has its own properties, e.g. start_date, > wikipedia reference, architect, operator, name, height, etc > > yes, often you can understand which tag belongs to