[OSM-newbies] Is building=yes (or landuse=retail) necessary in addition to amenity=fuel?

[Dudley Ibbett]

I went though the same issue.  I don't know the history of this (if someone does it would be useful to know) but you need building=yes as a tag on the area for the building area to be rendered on the main osm map.  I guess is makes it easier to produce maps with and without buildings showing.

There is an article on the wiki "one feature, one osm element" that covers the issue of putting a POI in the centre of the building.  I.e. it shouldn't be done and the tags should be on the area defining the building..  With the availability of better imagery I have removed a number of POIs for pubs, cafes etc and drawn the building area with the necessary tags.  

I'll let others comment on landuse.  I'm not an urban mapper.

If the above wiki page is of help it would be useful to know what you have been searching on as it seems finding it needs to be improved.  Comments on the page itself would also be useful.

Regards

Dudley

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On 29 Dec 2012, at 09:49, "Sebastian Arcus" <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

> I've been tagging recently some shops and fuel stations which are on their own (not part of another building or site), and I have some questions. If I tag them simply with amenity=fuel (or shop=garden_centre, for example), they only show up on the OSM map as a POI - not the entire area traced. However, the rendering works correctly if I add the tag building=yes (or landuse=retail, if it is an area of land, and not a specific building).
> 
> I just want to make sure I understand things correctly. Is this the right way to do things? Although tags such as amenity=fuel can be applied to entire ways, not just one waypoint, the extra tag such as building=yes or landuse=* is still necessary  in order for it to show up correctly on OSM's map (and presumably other renderers)? According to my experiments, it seems that is the case, but I want to make sure I'm not wrong.
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> On the other hand, is it preferable to just tag the building on its own, the are of land with landuse=* on its own, and then place a separate node in the middle with amenity=fuel? Or not?
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> I've been searching the OSM wiki, and the descriptions of various tags are great, but can't seem to find a page with best practice for things such as the above - although there might be one somewhere.
> 
> Hope the above makes sense.
> 
> Sebastian
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