[OSM-talk] A post box called Breuningsweiler

[David Earl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk]
> Sent: 25 May 2007 14:07
> To: David Earl
> Cc: Andy Robinson; 'OSM'; talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] A post box called Breuningsweiler
>
>
> >This seems perverse to me when there are already tags for farms
> >(landuse=farm)
>
> Landuse is an area tag though, and not really appropriate for the actual
> farm building. As it happens, in the absence of an official farm tag I've
> been going (on a longstanding basis now, basically ever since Map
> Features
> replaced the class system) with a third option: residence=farm.


No it isn't:

<quote from Map_features>
Node/Area | Physical | landuse | farm | Animals, vegetables, flowers, fruit
growing (Other languages)
</quote>

Almost all the area tags say Node/Area. The most common one used like this
is amenity=parking which is already rendered as both area (shading) and node
(icon) on both maps.

David