OpenStreetMap
How to map buildings within a building?
Air a phostadh le howdystranger 19 An Gearran 2018 sa chànan EnglishHi all,
Hoping for some guidance.
Here’s the area I’m looking at.
It’s a hospital in my city. It’s a series of buildings which are connected together. What is the best way to label the individual buildings? Previously a mapper had put individual buildings on top of the underlying buildings but that doesn’t seem great.
Many thanks
Discussion
Beachd le McBlaze 19 An Gearran 2018 aig 07:54
Hi, in most cases you don’t know where one building ends and the other begins. So you can better map the outline of the building and put a single node inside the area with the information. This could be a address or the name of that part of this building. Nominatim or other navi-software will take the node to route you there. I would not recommend building within buildings.
Greetz
Beachd le howdystranger 19 An Gearran 2018 aig 07:58
Thanks! What I’ve done currently is add buildings as points with their names, but it doesn’t seem to display in the default view on osm.org….
Beachd le Hjart 19 An Gearran 2018 aig 16:01
At https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/wiN building:part tags has been used to map and name parts of buildings. Here the names also doesn’t render on the default view though.
Beachd le McBlaze 21 An Gearran 2018 aig 18:42
@Hjart This is a great way to map such parts. Always nice to learn something new! ;-)