[Tagging] To mark as covered, or to not mark as covered?

[Tod Fitch]

JOSM’s validity checking will warn against a highway=* going through a building=roof but it accepts it if you add a layer=1, so in this situation I’ve been using the following tagging:

building=roof
layer=1
(and typically other things like amenity=fuel).

Often, but not always, there is a small building under the canopy with an attendant or small convenience market. Using the building=roof + layer=1 combination on the canopy also allows adding the covered building.

Setting the tag “covered=* would make sense to me in situations where buildings overhang or cover the highway but based on how it looks on the ground tunnel=yes seem inappropriate.

Cheers,
Tod

> On May 28, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If this is like many fuel stations, it's probably just a roof with no walls. Typically, I've seen those tagged building=roof. In that case, the covered=* tag seems redundant.
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com <mailto:bryan at 7thposition.com>> wrote:
> Isn’t that exactly the situation that `covered` is for - so that validators don’t raise a warning about the way passing through a building?
> (I don’t use this tag myself, but I assumed that’s why it exists).
> 
> 
> > On May 28, 2015, at 1:41 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com <mailto:bryce2 at obviously.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Here is another excessively mapped "covered" tag:
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/182529550 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/182529550>
> >

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