How to tag a research institute of several joint buildings?

siberiano · 2010-04-14T19:58:15.000Z

This research institute consists of several blocks (all joint) of different levels and height, and one of the blocks has a different street address. Hence it’s better to make it as several ways. Now, the question is how to mark it all together with the institute’s title?

put name=… in each of the blocks is improper: will duplicate titles in browser and quite likely in GPS devices.
draw an additional way by the perimeter of the buildings, and mark it as name=…, area=yes. Not good, it’ll be a way with no other tags (amenity, man_made, etc), and probably will be filtered out when exporting to GPS devices.
The same but landuse=industrial? Mmm… it’s not quite industrial… Trees and gardens all around, it’s cytology and genetics institute after all.
Draw a way with landuse=industrial around. That’s imprecise, there’s no fence around, the institute has no separate territory.

What should I do?

There’s also a connection between two buildings that’s above gound, with a road under it. It’s not a tunnel, the connection stands on pillars. Can someone, please, fix it? I can’t find a proper way to tag this, so that it looked properly.

NE2 · 2010-04-14T20:43:11.000Z

Would a multipolygon relation work?

siberiano · 2010-04-14T21:03:35.000Z

What role do I set to the buildings?

NE2 · 2010-04-14T23:01:26.000Z

outer? I’ve never actually made a multipolygon; best to wait until someone who has shows up.

wambacher · 2010-04-15T00:27:14.000Z

siberiano:

What role do I set to the buildings?

don’t need a multipolygon. just start with a simple relation of type=site and add the areas and buildings to it. without role. there’s a wiki about “site”. but i don’t know the name.

walter

siberiano · 2010-04-15T07:00:09.000Z

Is it this one?

asciiphil · 2010-04-15T15:10:22.000Z

siberiano:

There’s also a connection between two buildings that’s above gound, with a road under it.

Tag the portion of the road that goes under the building as covered=yes. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be renderer support for this tag yet, so it won’t look great on the Mapnik layer, at least.

NE2 · 2010-04-15T22:20:04.000Z

Depending on how wide the connection is, it may just be an enclosed bridge (highway=footway bridge=yes access=private?).