[Tagging] More tagging questions

[Jonas Minnberg]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 07/05/2010 21:09, Jonas Minnberg wrote:
> >
> > In Sweden we have special barriers in the ground that only larger
> > vehicles can pass, meant to allow buses but not normal cars - is there a
> > tag for such a thing or should I make one up?
>
> barrier=bus_trap
> it's listed on the Key:barrier page, but without any description. Though
> I assume its for something like a bus trap, as described on Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_trap


Thanks, thats exactly it.


> > Is there a a good way to define the area covered by school grounds? The
> > examples and documentation about education tags seems to only apply to
> > nodes or individual buildings - I would like something like
> > landuse=school, which would also be a good place to put the name of the
> > school.
>
> The tag amenity=school is intended for the whole area of the school and
> its grounds. You can also map the school buildings, sports pitches etc
> within this.
> This is clearly stated on this page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dschool
> So I'm not sure which examples or documentation you are referring to.


I was looking at "college" and "university", I thought "school" was just
another variations so I missed that...

-- Sasq
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