[talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

[John Smith]

2009/12/21 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Specifically, though, I'm wondering why use amenity:atm=yes rather
>>> than atm=yes? Is there ever some "atm" that isn't an amenity?
>>
>> It's for when there are several amenities sharing one node. Not that any renderers/editors actually support this notion, but there's not much choice.
>
> I don't understand. Why use amenity:atm=yes rather than atm=yes?

The thinking at the time was amenity=atm -> amenity:atm=yes...