All building=* on nodes is fine. As others have pointed out, it is often necessary in HOT aerial mapping when we have low-resolution imagery to work from.
Also, for humanitarian purposes there are serious uses for node-only buildings, for estimating the population or the population distribution in a place. I've edited the wiki to set onNode=yes. I hope that doesn't lead to a storm Best Dan 2015-02-16 18:10 GMT+00:00 Lukas Sommer <sommer...@gmail.com>: > I would like to return to the original question: > > 1.) I think it is confusing to have building=cowshed allowed on nodes, > but building=cabin not allowed. We should unify this. Either _all_ > building=* keys can be used on nodes, or _none_. > > 2.) If we agree on 1.), would we opt to allow nodes or to disallow > nodes? After reading the previous comments, I would tend to allow it. > > Best regards > > Lukas > > 2015-02-16 12:12 GMT, fly <lowfligh...@googlemail.com>: >> Am 14.02.2015 um 23:06 schrieb Tobias Knerr: >>> On 14.02.2015 22:11, SomeoneElse wrote: >>>> ... it also says that it shouldn't be used on relations, which would >>>> exclude perfectly valid multipolygons, such as this one: >>> >>> Multipolygons are a means to map areas. So they are covered by the area >>> icon. >>> >>> The relation icon stands for relations that are not areas, >>> just as the way icon stands for ways that are not areas. >> >> How about type=building ? >> >>>> It appears that again people are trying to use the wiki to "tell other >>>> people how to map" rather than "describe how things tend to be mapped". >>> >>> Nobody is telling anyone not to use multipolygons. >> >> This is totally misleading as the type of the object is still a >> relation. Once we introduce an area object we might cover closed ways >> and multipolygones as one category. For now we depend on the object type >> or e.g. editor software already need to implement the area type to offer >> proper presets. >> >> cu fly >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > -- > Lukas Sommer > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
