On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Frans Thamura <fr...@meruvian.org> wrote: > hi all > a lot of POI Discussion around, and i am planning to link between node > become area. > > so, we can have an area implementation rather just a node for POI > > like building, etc, we have square, and why we implemen in POI node > > Question: how to make a POI become an area in OSM? > > > any idea for this idea?
Most anything that I consider a point of interest can be modelled in OSM as either a point or a polygon. So you can find gas stations that are nodes and gas stations that are ways. You can find hospitals that are nodes and hospitals that are ways. etc. In general, you will use the same tags, amenity=fuel, name=PetroCan for example, but put the tags on the closed way, rather than on a node. Also, you would tag an object as either a node OR as a way, but not both. Which to do is largely a matter of mapper preference, and subject to local conditions. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
