<div dir="ltr">Good idea to have such a tag, should include diesel for cars, kerosine for heating and propane/butane for cooking that are sold in the same way. I Kenya we have been in areas far away from regular filling stations; there people are selling diesel from drums.<div><br></div><div>I think shop=fuel is dangerous as it is too close to amenity=fuel (which in my opinion should be shop=fuel). There are more discussions about things tagged as amenity or shop (see for example the discussion about shop=car_storage).<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:20 AM Dave Swarthout <<a href="mailto:daveswarthout@gmail.com">daveswarthout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:16px">I want to float an idea to get your reactions. Here in Thailand, and especially in rural areas, there are hundreds of shops that sell motor fuel in small quantities. Most of the population drive motorbikes which are used for every sort of transport imaginable. They have a tiny petrol tank, perhaps 4-5 liters, therefore a short range; they need frequent fill-ups. To meet this need local individuals have set up small sheds or kiosks from which they hand pump the small quantities needed. Some shops sell fuel by the liter bottle, often a whiskey bottle. Such shops are poorly marked, seldom have any signs indicating their presence and typically offer no other services. If you live in the area you will know where the fuel shop is, otherwise they're almost invisible</div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">At any rate, we're looking for a way to tag these fuel shops in such a way that they become visible in OSM (and on our GPS units), and will not be mistaken for a full size fuel service station. Current tagging practice is to tag them with amenity=fuel and a made up name, for example, Bike petrol or Drummed fuel. The people doing this are aware of the fact that such tagging isn't strictly correct, but they understandably want to be able to find those shops should they run out of fuel. One problem with this Thailand-centric approach, is that other data consumers are unaware of it. Another is that the informal names are multiplying rapidly and one mapper's drummed fuel is another's barreled fuel and another's Bike petrol. Where it will end is anyone's guess.</div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">I'm suggesting an addition to the values of the shop key: shop=fuel or perhaps shop=motor_fuel<br></div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">My goal is to standardize the tagging so that at some point these shops can be eventually rendered on Garmin compatible downloaded maps and hence made visible. I have done this for my custom Garmin maps and find it a real asset.</div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">Here is a photo of such a shop in my neighborhood:</div><div><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABarreled_fuel_shop.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABarreled_fuel_shop.jpg</a></span><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Dave Swarthout<br>Homer, Alaska<br>Chiang Mai, Thailand<br>Travel Blog at <a href="http://dswarthout.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://dswarthout.blogspot.com</a></div></div>
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