[Tagging] highway=services

[Richard Welty]

On 5/28/10 7:54 AM, Liz wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, John Smith wrote:
>    
>> On 28 May 2010 21:43, Liz<edodd at billiau.net>  wrote:
>>      
>>> This points out a serious problem with the highway=services tag
>>> it is only one letter different from a very different tag.
>>> John Smith will shoot me down, but this could be an amenity tag
>>> amenity=highway_services
>>>        
>> Or just extend the existing tag since it is a highway specific feature:
>>
>> highway=service_area
>>
>>      
> would a relation make more sense
> to group parking+toilets+bin+fuel+food
> in whatever combination was available?
>    
lots of ways to do this:

toilets=yes
food=yes
vending=yes
fuel=yes

although in a large service area with food and fuel, you'd probably
just map them in as POIs in the conventional way. same for parking,
we have a normal approach for that already.

richard