Hi,
On 10/14/2011 01:18 PM, John Sturdy wrote:
Are you recommending to tag subway stations as buildings in order to be able
to tag their entrances?
That seems logical to me. Is there some problem with doing this, that
I haven't seen?
Sorry, I forgot that a subway station does not always have to be under
ground.
Tagging an above-ground subway station as a building is common practice.
For underground buildings, things are more difficult; we don't have an
established way of recording the fact that they are below the surface.
layer=-1 doesn't cut it as it is only relative to other features, not
relative to the surface; and tunnel=yes doesn't sound right either (a
subway station is not a tunnel, and is not usually "in a tunnel" either).
For this reason, most renderings will look shite with underground
buildings, and even non-rendering uses will draw the wrong conclusions
from a subterranean subway stations being tagged as buildings.
But then again, the underground buildings are those for which knowing
the location of the entrance is most useful because you cannot simply
walk around them until you find one ;)
Bye
Frederik
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