Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@...> writes: > > > I think the answers will vary from different countries. > > And may vary locally. Within N miles of the sea-shore, the MASS-GIS > import includes building outlines from the NOAA airborne LIDAR coastal > survey. Tagging is quite spare : > > * area: yes > * building: yes > * source: MassGIS Buildings > (http://www.mass.gov/mgis/lidarbuildingfp2d.htm)
Hi, Area=yes is unnecessary. Usually just building=yes is used and I suppose that standard renderers are selecting all the buildings with something like "WHERE building is not null". But if you are going to render yourself it will be very easy to add some colour to the map by separating tags like building=residential, building=commercial etc. Some buildings have also well known names. Address tags are often used with buildings but I would prefer seeing them as separate nodes because I am lazy and that way it would be easier to find all the addresses from the data imported into PostGIS with osm2pgsql. And then the buildings have properties like architect, height, number of floors etc. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging