Changeset: 50407963
added (restored?) name for school bldg (contrary to normal use - name & details should attach to grounds, not bldg, due to OSM peculiarities); added "house number" for building, since that will be shown in most apps & might be helpful
Closed by abDoug
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Discussion
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Comment from hoserab
Thanks for fixing this. :)
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Comment from abDoug
I normally won't map inner open areas of buildings, since they aren't visible from ground level & I suspect there are only 3 balloonists world-wide who use OSM. Inner areas aren't wrong but I just don't consider them to add useful info in most cases. An exception might be for a public building such as a hospital.
Landuse = grass IS dubious - see OSM docMethod to fix this sort of thing if if won't render:
- delete all the tags that have anything to do with shape so only "line" forms remain
- select the outer and inner(s) and use the + (combine items) function in the "built in" OSM editor
- being careful to select the multipolygon, not one of the constituent lines, add tag(s), under "All tags", as appropriate e.g. building = school
I drew an additional rectangle for the "grass". It apparently should be possible to set the inner to be something, but I can't get it to work reliably. (the default "inner" will just be a hole through to whatever lies below, which would be the parking lot in this case)It seems to me in the past that there was another way that worked, but I spent a whole lot of time recently trying to get an island into a pond. I tried a lot of things. This was the only way I could find that worked.
An aside for easy fix-up if you accidentally draw a closed shape using a line instead of an area:
You can't use "Change feature" box at the top of the tag editing window. Instead:
- select the line
- click on Line under Select feature type
- add a tag under "All tags", e.g. building = school
Once something is tagged as something that is normally an area you can use the Change feature box - e.g. if you wanted a park but can't remember the proper tags, make the line into a building then use Change feature to turn it into a park.I note you are naming parking areas. I consider this essential, since the mobile apps I've tried will give a completely useless list of unnamed parking areas & distances if you search for nearby parking. The only way to find out if the lot is usable is to examine it visually on the map. If a lot is named "Dr. Evil's School staff lot", you get the appropriate hint with a lot less effort. I won't map private residential parking at all, though I would definitely map visitor parking for a residential complex.\
Cheers!
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Comment from hoserab
I generally don't include inner areas of buildings either, but this building's inner area is actually clearly visible from ground level: the walls of the enclosing corridor on the east side of the building are mostly glazing. You can see right in from the street. When I first drew in the outline for Central Memorial it seemed kind of disingenuous to *not* include the fact that a big chunk of the inner area of the building is clearly a patch of dirt.
I agree landuse=grass is dubious, but I couldn't find anything more appropriate. 'Park'? The distinction between landuse=grass and landcover=grass is especially confusing...
As for parking lot tagging, I've been torn about what I'd been doing as many of these lots don't have any "name" per se and something like "shopping centre parking" is more a description than a name. Parking lots operated by the CPA and big parking companies (Impark, Indigo/WestPark, etc.) I definitely name with the company's associated lot #. I admittedly don't use any mobile apps so I haven't a clue what info they give about parking but I would hope a well-written app spitting out a list would include access! I try to make sure I've included access whenever I add a parking area.
Cheers
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