[OSM-talk] Mapping an Area

[Frans Thamura]

hi Alex and All :)

but adding both make "dirty" our map, isnt it?

my plan to draw a lake, and want to make it as POI's node search.

in my research, esp lake tangayika in africa, every side of this lake,
have a different species of tropheus, and i got a every side of the
lake create a strain.

take a look this picture/image

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/figures/1471-2148-7-137-1-l.jpg

and i got new species distribution also here, in indonesia,
psudomugill gestrudae, with blue and "red" colour.



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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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