[OSM-talk] Mapping an Area

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
> hi all
> a lot of POI Discussion around, and i am planning to link between node
> become area.
>
> so, we can have an area implementation rather just a node for POI
>
> like building, etc, we have square, and why we implemen in POI node
>
> Question: how to make a POI become an area in OSM?
>
>
> any idea for this idea?

Most anything that I consider a point of interest can be modelled in
OSM as either a point or a polygon.  So you can find gas stations that
are nodes and gas stations that are ways.  You can find hospitals that
are nodes and hospitals that are ways.  etc.

In general, you will use the same tags, amenity=fuel, name=PetroCan
for example, but put the tags on the closed way, rather than on a
node.

Also, you would tag an object as either a node OR as a way, but not
both.  Which to do is largely a matter of mapper preference, and
subject to local conditions.