OJW's diary
University of Nottingham main campusI've traced some buildings on the University of Nottingham main campus from Yahoo imagery, filling-in names from memory (and with a few hints from the Wikipedia article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nottingham_Halls_of_Residence
It adds a new tag:
place=hall_of_residence
which may be worth rendering on campus maps.
In the meantime, I've lablled the residential buildings with the name of their hall (e.g. 10 buildings all with name=Lenton and Wortley, which shows-up on the map)
There are parks and woodlands marked inside the campus. The area tagging causes some problems:
To make a woodland appear above the generic "landuse=university" purple area, we have to use the layer attribute. But that makes some paths disappear 'under' the woodland. I don't want to put a higher layer on those paths just to make them render, since technically they're ground-level paths.
Multipolygon relations are being used for courtyards within buildings.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Multipolygon
Coordinates:Posted by OJW at Sun Mar 16 12:08:59 +0000 2008
Comment from LivingWithDragons at Sun Mar 16 17:00:08 +0000 2008
why not building=hall_of_residence and it will render?
Comment from OJW at Sun Mar 16 21:46:25 +0000 2008
looks a bit messy when there are 10 buildings all with the hall name -- that's how it is at the moment...
Comment from smsm1 at Sun Mar 16 23:59:53 +0000 2008
How about using layer=-5 for the university campus layer?
