[Talk-GB] POI features: node vs way?

[Dan S]

Hi -

Definitely you should _not_ tag both the polygon and a node. That
creates two objects, and many systems will then think there are two
pubs!

This is articulated in this principle:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element

If you have a need for POIs as point features, simply convert all
relevant ways/relations into nodes while populating your database.
It's very easy to calculate the centroid (average position) of nodes
in a way.

Dan

2014-01-26 Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Have noticed here in the UK an increasing tendency to tag polygons rather
> than points with the "POI" tags e.g. amenity=pub, railway=station.
>
> This is good for many uses, however in some use cases (e.g. my own, I have a
> need to populate a database with POIs as point features) it can cause
> difficulty.
>
> What is the general recommendation in this case? Tag both the polygon
> (building) and one of its nodes as amenity=pub, etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
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