[OSM-talk] Mapping an Area

[Alex Rollin]

Sometimes both are done, too, adding the way and the node both.

How to track them once added?

On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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