So...an area where they occur then Pois for specific survey results? Different tags?
I understand where Richard is coming from. I also know there's technical differences dealing with areas and showing them as Pois (as if they were nodes) depending on your map presentation. Alex On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:06 AM, Frans Thamura <fr...@meruvian.org> wrote: > hi Alex and All :) > > but adding both make "dirty" our map, isnt it? > > my plan to draw a lake, and want to make it as POI's node search. > > in my research, esp lake tangayika in africa, every side of this lake, > have a different species of tropheus, and i got a every side of the > lake create a strain. > > take a look this picture/image > > http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/figures/1471-2148-7-137-1-l.jpg > > and i got new species distribution also here, in indonesia, > psudomugill gestrudae, with blue and "red" colour. > > > > F > > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Alex Rollin <alex.rol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 <rich...@weait.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk