[OSM-newbies] Polygons and Properties

[Thomas Wood]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Stuart <stuart.srsm at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>  I'm trying to create a woodland type map which will require lots of
>  different polygons e.g. Museum building outline, country house building
>  outline, garden, conifer trees, broadleaf trees etc

Generally for buildings, building=something will get rendered.
For types of trees, invent your own.
>
>  I have created closed ways for some of these features but don't know what
>  properties will create a polygon. E.g. I created a school playground polygon
>  and called it Amenity: school. This created a nice polygon but I have tried
>  other Presets on JOSM but most refer to point features e.g. Museum. So how
>  do I know which Preset Properties are for polygons and which are for points?

As Andy said, renderers often determine whether it is a polygon first
by whether it is closed, secondly by the type of tagging. For example,
amenity=school gets rendered when given a closed way.

>
>  Note the closed ways which I could not label appeared only in MapLint.
>
>  I intend to use a local version of osmarenderer so don't really care about
>  formatting as long as a closed way gets through to the OSM data file as a
>  polygon.
>
>  Cheers
>
>
>
>  PS
>
>  I posted this same comment on the Wiki Talk: Josm. I'm not sure if that is
>  the appropriate forum for a question - speaking of forum I can't figure out
>  the attraction of a mailing list over a forum. Seems designed to make life
>  harder for all involved.
>
>
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)