* Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> [2012-01-07 18:00 -0800]: > > From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m...@rtijn.org] > > Apartment buildings imported from GNIS appear as 'place=hamlet' in Salt > > Lake City (and quite possibly elsewhere). I think this is too much honor > > for 99% of apartment buildings. > > I tag these with landuse=residential name=* for the complex. > building=apartments or as applicable for the buildings.
I do the same thing, but I wanted to note that in cases where I don't know the exact extents of the residential area (more common for subdivisions than apartment complexes), I just change the node's tags from place=hamlet to landuse=residential. That at least keeps tools from seeing the subdivision (or whatever) as a separate town. Also, when I do expand a GNIS node into an area, I copy all the GNIS tags to the area (except for ele, which isn't useful on an area), delete all tags from the original node, and use the node as part of the new area. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- "What do you mean, I can't?" "I won't let you." "Of the two people here, which is the boss of me?" -- Willow and Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Choices") ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
