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> On Mar 20, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Jan van Bekkum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There is a similar confusion for kerosine (US), paraffine (UK), petroleum 
> (NL); it all the same liquid

Yikes!

Paraffin is a wax, and petroleum is just a fancy word for oil in general. I 
think Kerosene is the winner for the tag. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin_wax

They mention paraffin is sometimes used to refer to the separate kerosene 
liquid. 

Language is so interesting ^_^



> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:29 PM johnw <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Warin <[email protected]> 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.
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