Hello,
I think the door has no name and the café is not the door operator either.
The three methods that seem appropriate to me are:
- Assign a value to entrance that describes its purpose (entrance=shop entrance=amenity entrance=office)
- Create an area for the café and connect the entrance to this area
- Use the type=provides feature relationship to link the door to the café [1]
And a slightly roundabout and limited method: have the café object close to its entrance
Regards,
Marc
De : Christopher Beddow <christopher.beddow@gmail.com>
Envoyé : dimanche 25 janvier 2026 09:24
À : Openstreetmap Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra <talk-ch@openstreetmap.ch>
Objet : [talk-ch] Entrances: name or operator?
Grüezi,
I am looking at an entrance I added to a cafe a while back. I see I added the name of the cafe as name=Bahnino on the entrance, and the cafe has its own point that is the same name.
I was wondering if that is wrong: should I instead put operator=Bahnino, or even remove the name from the entrance entirely? On my own map project I was searching for duplicates and this came up as a weak candidate due to same name.
What is the best protocol in general for giving some signal that the entrance is connected to a specific POI, considering that a building could have many entrance nodes but each one could lead to one or many places directly?
Thanks for any tips and advice!
Chris Beddow