Hi guys, Here's another mapping suggestion: add details/amenities to gas stations (amenity=fuel[1]). Of course we should map co-located restaurants or shops within gas stations but we should also map the attached convenience stores (shop=convenience[2]) like Shell Select, 7-Eleven/Caltex Mini Mart, Petron Treats, and Total's Cafe Bonjour. Add opening_hours=24/7 if the convenience store is open 24/7. And if the gas station has a public CR, add a toilet node (amenity=toilets[3]). This is important since not all gas stations (especially in the provinces) have convenience stores or toilets and these are things that motorist would want to know. If there is an available satellite image, you should mark the whole lot of the gas station as a closed polygon and add the tag landuse=retail.
As an example, here's Shell along the southbound side of Macapagal Blvd: http://osm.org/go/4zhExjoQh-- Aside from the Yellow Cab store there (which is open 24/7 so it has a tag opening_hours=24/7), the CR and the Shell Select store were added as nodes. The Shell station itself[4] is a polygon with the following tags: addr:city=Parañaque addr:street=Pres. Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard amenity=fuel landuse=retail name=Shell opening_hours=24/7 And the tags for the Shell Select node[5] are the following: addr:city=Parañaque addr:street=Pres. Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard name=Shell Select opening_hours=24/7 shop=convenience Happy Mapping! [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=fuel [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=convenience [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=toilets [4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39809671 [5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1312653944 _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
