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how to map usage of university buildings
Publicado por Sanderd17 o 10 de Novembro de 2010 en English.If you look at osm.org/?lat=50.86384&lon=4.67707&zoom=17&layers=M , you see that the university buildings have references. These are mapped as names since these are used on all the signs. But I also want to map the use of the building.
e.g. building B 200 is the mathematics building, A 200 is informatics ...
This doesn't have to appear on the map (it would make the map unreadable anyway) but I like to have it in the database. The only problem is that I can't find an appropriate tag for it. I don't even have enough inspiration to think of a tag myself.
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Comentario de Pink Duck no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 13:59
You could use addr:housename for the taught subject and addr:housenumber for the building identifier, then use the name tag to display the building code by default.
Comentario de Sanderd17 no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 14:04
so e.g.
addr:housename=Departement Wiskunde
addr:housename_en=Department of Mathematics
addr:housenumber=200 B
name=200 B
do you mean this? it looks good to me.
Comentario de EdLoach no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 14:14
Or instead of building=yes, building=mathematics_faculty (or whatever).
Comentario de Sanderd17 no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 14:25
well, at the key:building page in the wiki, they say thee building= is common. I don't think that "mathematics_faculty" is a type of building typology. I prefer to use a tag that doesn't collide with other used tags.
Comentario de Sanderd17 no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 14:26
sorry, html screwed up my post. It's unreadable in that way, I'll reformat it here:
well, at the key:building page in the wiki, they say the building="building_typlology" is common. I don't think that "mathematics_faculty" is a type of building typology. I prefer to use a tag that doesn't collide with other used tags.
Comentario de !i! no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 17:05
Hmm I always thought about a relation to stitch all university buildings together and highlight them in a map style.
osm.wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site
unfortunatly I lack of time :(
Comentario de Minh Nguyen no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 18:41
building=yes
operator=Departement Wiskunde
operator:en=Department of Mathematics
Comentario de SamatJain no 10 de Novembro de 2010 ás 21:17
> building=yes
>operator=Departement Wiskunde
> operator:en=Department of Mathematics
I feel this is misleading… in universities in the USA, at least, the "operator" of the building is the university, and the department just a tenant.
I like the proposal in the first comment, using addr:housename.
Comentario de compdude no 11 de Novembro de 2010 ás 03:59
I know this isn't really related to your post but I noticed some areas around the university that are marked with the tag landuse=forest. According to the wiki, this tag should be used only for forests that are managed (ie owned by a logging company). Obviously these forests don't appear to be big enough to be owned by a logging company, so shouldn't they be marked as natural=wood?
Comentario de SamatJain no 11 de Novembro de 2010 ás 05:42
@compdude: But, a forest on university land *is* managed—by the university.
Comentario de Sanderd17 no 11 de Novembro de 2010 ás 09:55
so the addr:housename tag it is.
Should I put this on the wiki for other university, school or compagny buildings?
@compdude, I don't know it these are managed. In Belium, every piece of ground is managed by someone, if they had permission to put a building on it, they would. So I guess most woods are forests but I can be wrong.
Comentario de jnsc no 11 de Novembro de 2010 ás 16:25
you could have a look here : osm.org/?lat=46.51947&lon=6.56942&zoom=16&layers=M
and
http://plan.epfl.ch/
Comentario de Vclaw no 11 de Novembro de 2010 ás 16:57
I don't think the "addr:housename" tag (or the "name" tag) is correct for this. Those tags are for the name of the building, which is not necessarily the same as the name of the department based in that building.
I would suggest using a different tag, eg "department", or maybe "operator:department"
Though at the universities I'm familiar with, most buildings are used by several different departments anyway.
Also, if the building has a reference, eg a letter and number, I think that should be tagged as "ref", as its not really a name.
Comentario de Kevin Steinhardt no 11 de Novembro de 2010 ás 18:49
I would have put the building numbers as ref=* and 'Department of Whatever' as name=Department of Whatever (or name:en=Department of Whatever)
Comentario de Sanderd17 no 12 de Novembro de 2010 ás 09:03
the name=Department X isn't good. The name should be the word by which everyone calls it (official and non-official sources). In this case the letter A, B ... or the complete ref: 200 A, 200 B...
I'm willing to duplicate that in a ref=... tag, but It's already in the addr:housenumber and in the name tag. so creating an extra ref tag is totally unnecessary.
maybe the addr:housename tag isn't correct. I do find the operator:department good, but there are buildings who have other usages as well. Like computer classes or labs. They don't belong to a department, but do have a name like "PC-classes".
Comentario de marscot no 12 de Novembro de 2010 ás 15:33
I would use
building=yes
Building:use=School or what ever it is
Building:name=A200 or what ever
building:height=10m
building:roof=
now thats the building done but the building can have more than one address one side could be main street the other back street thats why you should tag a node inside with address details and not on the building tags