Navigator free doesnt show all buildings
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hurdygurdymanhurdygurdyman
    If you look here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.42617&lon=-6.23341&zoom=17&layers=M
    you see two Hotels at Dublin Airport.
    But navigator free only shows them as POI-points. I guess the reason is, that the are tagged in OSM as building=hotel and not as building=yes. But OSM allows to tag buildingas that way (building=school, building=supermarket etc.). Is it possible to make such kind of buildings visible?

    By the way: all the terminals are unvisible, too.

    Thanks
    Michael
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down mdxmdx
    Hello Michael,
    it is exactly as you write: if 'building' in attr and attr['building']=='yes' then do conversion. So is it enough that there is a tag with key "building" and it does not matter what is the value? On http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Building I see that it should not be converted 'building'='entrance' ... is it the only exception?
    thank you
       Martin
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hurdygurdymanhurdygurdyman

    Hello Martin,
    it's also my state of knowledge, that building=entrance is the only exception. Also this key/value should be used on nodes only.
    There may be a "danger" for the future, if special tags grow for 3D-tagging as building=window or whatever. But I think, if there is a closed way with building=* you can be nearly shure thats an outline of a building.

    Good luck
    Michael


    Edit: Maybe a deeper look here helps a bit: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=building#values. Its filtered on ways and it seems to be a "less than 4%-problem". 

  • Vote Up0Vote Down mdxmdx
    Hi Michael,
    thanks for taginfo link - that's quite useful. The Ireland data is recomputed and will be on update tomorrow (ver120113). Backup the old MCA if you want to compare it. Beside building=yes a drawer was changed (from "industrial area" to "buildings" ...
    let me know if it is correct now
    regards
       Martin
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hurdygurdymanhurdygurdyman
    Hi Martin,
    thanks for information. I'll download new Ireland data and compare them on PC with elder version on WM 6.5. So a backup isn't necessary ;-)

    By the way: I found this bug by accident, when I prepared an Ireland-tour I plan end of May and compared original OSM and Navigator Free map.

    Have a nice weekend
    Michael
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hurdygurdymanhurdygurdyman
    Hi Martin,
    all the buildings I found with "building=(anything but yes)" are correct with outline now.
    So it seems satisfying to me.

    Thanks
    Michael
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