[OSM-dev] missing tags?

[Andy Robinson]

Artem Pavlenko [mailto:artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net] wrote:
>Sent: 26 February 2007 12:01 PM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] missing tags?
>
>OK, thanks.
>
>How about this one ?
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><osm version="0.3" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
>  <way id="4256246" timestamp="2007-01-28 18:08:21">
>    <seg id="21495206"/>
>    <seg id="21495211"/>
>    <seg id="21495216"/>
>    <seg id="21495205"/>
>    <tag k="building" v="station"/>
>    <tag k="name" v="St Pancras"/>
>    <tag k="created_by" v="JOSM"/>
>    <tag k="wikipedia" v="yes"/>
>  </way>
></osm>
>
>Is 'building' a valid tag? I can not see any reference to it on
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features
>

Essentially there is no such thing as an invalid tag name. Anything is
allowable. Building is however used quite a bit even if it's not documented
well on the wiki.

For this one I would simply add the railway=station tag and leve the
building tag as it is.

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk


>
>Cheers,
>Artem
>
>On Monday 26 February 2007 10:49, Andy Robinson wrote:
>> Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>> >Sent: 26 February 2007 10:38 AM
>> >To: dev at openstreetmap.org
>> >Subject: [OSM-dev] missing tags?
>> >
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >Just looking through features that are not rendered correctly in Mapnik
>> > and I
>> >see this:
>> >
>> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> ><osm version="0.3" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
>> >  <way id="4245075" timestamp="2007-01-23 00:50:29">
>> >    <seg id="21369626"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369627"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369628"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369629"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369613"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369615"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369616"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369617"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369619"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369621"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369622"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369623"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369624"/>
>> >    <seg id="21369625"/>
>> >    <tag k="name" v="Waterloo Station"/>
>> >    <tag k="created_by" v="YahooApplet 1.0"/>
>> >  </way>
>> ></osm>
>> >
>> >Are there some tags missing? railway = station ?
>>
>> Yep, looks like it.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> >Cheers,
>> >Artem
>> >
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