[talk-au] Attributing points and/or areas

[Roy Wallace]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:20 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 June 2010 07:12, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> With my GPS hat on I'd say attribute the polygon as amenity=fuel but leave
>>> the point and all its attributes so it shows up on the GPS as a POI.
>>
>> IMHO that's mapping for the GPS, i.e. bad.
>
> If a point is needed, the same thing could be achieved by making a
> point from the centre location of the area.

Within the GPS software - yes. Within the OSM database - no.