OpenStreetMap
Hi 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
Awennit n McBlaze di 19 February 2018 ɣef 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
Awennit n howdystranger di 19 February 2018 ɣef 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….
Awennit n Hjart di 19 February 2018 ɣef 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.
Awennit n McBlaze di 21 February 2018 ɣef 18:42
@Hjart This is a great way to map such parts. Always nice to learn something new! ;-)