Where multiple organisations share the same building, what is the best option for tagging, please?
At the next town along the coast, the local sailing club and the local branch of the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard are located in one building (approx 27 x 22m).
On OSM, the building has previously been added (way/polygon) by someone else as building=yes, club=sport and sport=sailing.
I’ve added the Coast Guard as a node, tagged emergency=water_rescue.
Are there any better ways of doing this?
I’d tag the building with tags relevant to the building, building type matches the construction of the building. I.e. a restaurant in a church would have the building tagged as building=church.
For the locations inside it, I’d add them as nodes, locations as close to their locations in the building as possible, with their respective tags.
You can also look at entrance tagging if you want to get that detailed and help navigation slightly.
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I’ll second that. Unless an organisation occupies an entire building by themselves, the POI should go on a node.
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+1 to what the other two Andrews have said.
If the internal layout is accessible you could map them as areas within the building using indoor mapping techniques.
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I’ve tried to document the different approaches I’ve seen at User:Aharvey/Mapping Venues - OpenStreetMap Wiki ideally this could be better documented on the main wiki under approaches to mapping or something. Are there any other approaches I’ve missed?
I agree with the others. Here’s an example of a single building that houses multiple businesses:
The building area itself just has the following tags:
addr:housenumber=111
addr:street=Dangar Street
building=commercial
building:levels=1
roof:shape=flat
All other tags are on the individual nodes.
What program is that screenshot from, in that it’s got 2 overlaid icons for each POI?
It’s just OSM’s iD editor, in Edit mode. One POI is the editable node you click on to edit it, the other below is just the default OSM map layer showing those POIs. If I change the map layer to a satellite image instead, you won’t see the duplicates.
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Thanks for the feedback, I’ve removed the sailing club from the building tab and added it as a node.
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