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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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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