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
Comment from McBlaze on 19 February 2018 at 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
Comment from howdystranger on 19 February 2018 at 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….
Comment from Hjart on 19 February 2018 at 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.
Comment from McBlaze on 21 February 2018 at 18:42
@Hjart This is a great way to map such parts. Always nice to learn something new! ;-)