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How Are Buildings and Places Connected?

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Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions/308

Originally posted by frastlin July 26, 2023
Hello,
In reviewing the Schema, I am wondering how buildings and places can be connected? In the given example for the building, there is little to no information given about the building, other than that it is class "civic". I'm assuming there should be a places point that has more information, such as the name, website, hours, etc, but it's unclear how the two will connect other than by position. If position is how the two will connect, I would like there to be some mention in the docs about how the places point should be centered, or over the building, so that it's easy to tell on maps and detailed routing tools, what place connects to what building programmatically.
A couple other options could be that the places point has the ID of the building it belongs to, or there is a connectors (or relationship) object that has both the ID of the places point and the building.

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