* Jonas Minnberg <sas...@gmail.com> [2010-05-14 16:39 +0200]: > What about bordering buildings - ie buldings sharing walls but having > different addresses/uses ? Is it better to draw the as a single area or as > separate but with shared nodes?
I feel that separate ways that share nodes along the joint wall makes the most sense from an accuracy standpoint. It allows you to tag the appropriate areas with the building's address and type, which can be useful, since the renderers can color different building types differently. I osciallate on how much I do this, though. For dense commercial/retail areas, I might make distinct ways for the largest buildings (a supermarket in a strip mall, for instance) and just a few other ways that encompass all the smaller buildings; for example: http://osm.org/go/ZcIoRxTbc- . For residential areas, I often don't even bother with the buildings; because they're so small, they take a lot of time to make. There are examples in the residential areas just east of the shopping center I linked above. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- The router thinks it's a printer. -- BOFH excuse #118 ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
