[OSM-talk] Mapping an Area

[Alex Rollin]

So...an area where they occur then Pois for specific survey results?  Different tags?

I understand where Richard is coming from.  I also know there's technical differences dealing with areas and showing them as Pois (as if they were nodes) depending on your map presentation.

Alex

On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:06 AM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> F
> 
> 
> 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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