Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>seeing as I've always tagged POIs as point features, though, it's not been
something I've had to deal with until now when I've noticed a few point features
converted to areas.
Sorry, "mapped POIs as point features" I meant.
Anyway, I guess the best way to do it is via th
>The osmconvert has the ability to turn all the areas and ways to single nodes:
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert
>Shaun
OK thanks. Funny when you've been working with OSM for a long time you actually
get out of the loop because you keep doing things the "old" ways you've always
do
>seeing as I've always tagged POIs as point features, though, it's not been
>something I've had to deal with until now when I've noticed a few point
>features converted to areas.
Sorry, "mapped POIs as point features" I meant.
Anyway, I guess the best way to do it is via the scripting capabilit
Hi,
OK thanks.
TBH the only time I ever saw someone talk about this situation was a demo given
by one of the long standing OSM members back in 2007 at the Portsmouth SoC
event when he recommended creating two features, one for the area and one for
the POI - seeing as I've always tagged POIs as
The osmconvert has the ability to turn all the areas and ways to single nodes:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert
Shaun
On 26 Jan 2014, at 10:15, Dan S wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Definitely you should _not_ tag both the polygon and a node. That
> creates two objects, and many systems will th
Hi -
Definitely you should _not_ tag both the polygon and a node. That
creates two objects, and many systems will then think there are two
pubs!
This is articulated in this principle:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element
If you have a need for POIs as point features, s
Hi,
Have noticed here in the UK an increasing tendency to tag polygons rather than
points with the "POI" tags e.g. amenity=pub, railway=station.
This is good for many uses, however in some use cases (e.g. my own, I have a
need to populate a database with POIs as point features) it can cause
d
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