On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 08:19:25PM +0100, Dan S wrote: > > However two nodes with standard tags don't distinguish "W H Smiths > > inside Post office" from the inverse. That seems a useful distinction. > > sub_shop=yes is ugly, but perhaps something along these lines already > > exists or is needed? > > This may have been discussed heavily elsewhere, I don't know. My own > opinion is that if you need something to be _inside_ something else, > there's no point trying to do that just with nodes, since areas are > perfect for the job!
Agreed, but it breaks the symmetry and requires more careful survey. In my case, gps is a bit poor among tall buildings, and the shops are all in one big building. I can get a rough outline from Bing, but the inner walls would be guesswork. I don't want to introduce spurious accuracy into the database, so nodes seem appropriate here. I suppose a relation might capture the semantics, but I don't think that would be very obvious to the average user, who may not be a mapper at all. He/she needs to know he has to go inside WHS to find the Post Office. I suppose the obvious rendering would be as you suggest: WHS as an area containing the PO. Ho hum... ael _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
