[OSM-newbies] Tagging municipal/government areas

[James Ewen]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 November 2009 23:16:44 James Ewen wrote:
>> There is an amenity tag amenity=prison, but this is only a node.
>
> No it isn't. You can put the tag amenity=prison on whatever element you like.
>
> Just because someone "forgot" to add some icon to a wiki page doesn't mean
> much in OSM context.

That's kind of like saying that anything written about OSM means nothing.

I guess I can tag the 40 feet of cement between the street and my
garage as a motorway, since I drive my motorcar on it.

On the map features page amenity:prison can be a node or an area, but
as you say, someone might have forgotten to add the way icon...

I understand that OSM is a community project, that nothing written in
the Wiki is Gospel, but somewhere along the way, you have to try and
come up with some type of consensus... we all have to at some point
agree upon how we do things.

I'm simply trying to determine what consensus has been arrived at for
items I am looking at implementing. As the note at the top of the
prison page says, the page needs some post voting cleanup done. I am
not familiar with what should be done to clean up the page, otherwise
I would get after it and do it myself.

James
VE6SRV