Sometimes both are done, too, adding the way and the node both. How to track them once added?
On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Frans Thamura <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
