<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">JOSM’s validity checking will warn against a highway=* going through a building=roof but it accepts it if you add a layer=1, so in this situation I’ve been using the following tagging:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">building=roof</div><div class="">layer=1</div><div class="">(and typically other things like amenity=fuel).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Often, but not always, there is a small building under the canopy with an attendant or small convenience market. Using the building=roof + layer=1 combination on the canopy also allows adding the covered building.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Setting the tag “covered=* would make sense to me in situations where buildings overhang or cover the highway but based on how it looks on the ground tunnel=yes seem inappropriate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Tod</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 28, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Brad Neuhauser <<a href="mailto:brad.neuhauser@gmail.com" class="">brad.neuhauser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">If this is like many fuel stations, it's probably just a roof with no walls. Typically, I've seen those tagged building=roof. In that case, the covered=* tag seems redundant.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Bryan Housel <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:bryan@7thposition.com" target="_blank" class="">bryan@7thposition.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Isn’t that exactly the situation that `covered` is for - so that validators don’t raise a warning about the way passing through a building?<br class="">
(I don’t use this tag myself, but I assumed that’s why it exists).<br class="">
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> On May 28, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com" class="">bryce2@obviously.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Here is another excessively mapped "covered" tag:<br class="">
> <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/182529550" target="_blank" class="">http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/182529550</a><br class="">
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