There is a similar confusion for kerosine (US), paraffine (UK), petroleum (NL); it all the same liquid.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:29 PM johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > On Mar 20, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 20/03/2015 6:20 PM, John Willis wrote: > > > I haven't had a chance to read up on how to define the fuel type. > > I imagine there is various heating oils, propane and kerosene, LNG, coal, > wood, different grades of gas, diesel, aviation fuel, jet fuel, etc - even > "farm gas" which has different taxes. > > How can those be defined - esp if a shop sells more than one ( like my > Japanese gas station that also sells kerosene?) > > > Read the wiki? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:fuel > > > Thanks for the link. > > > that lists various octane ratings, LPG, wood, electric, diesel... > > It misses on various things as it is designed for amenity=fuel ... > but has been expanded for amenity=bbq ... that expansion has not followed > the same system though. > > > well, I guess you could use fuel:wood=yes for a place that sells firewood, > same with charcoal, if it was of mappable importance. > > at least they didn’t try to define the liquid fuels the same way (“gas”), > and left it to us to add propane/kerosene, etc. > > > You can change it .. or make proposals here. Just don't change the > existing values and it should be fine. > I'd think you'd be adding heating oils, propane and kerosene. > > I'd leave the avgas and jet fuel for later when aviation types want it, > not something you normally see for sale. > > > yea, I’m more interested in kerosene for mapping Japan. Propane in the US > is for BBQ grills, right? as far as the heating oils they use for the > central heaters in the eastern US, I have no idea what it is actually > called. > > 'Opal' fuel is a special petrol that exists in 'outback' Australia .. > maybe that could be added. > > > if that is how it’s displayed, I would add it, as it is not “normal” > gasoline. There’s another additive down there too, the adblue stuff. > > it discourages kids sniffing petrol and ending up without brains. Some > people use avgas in their vehicles for the same purpose. > > > there must not be a lot of stuff to do out there, I take it. > > Javbw. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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