I've been tagging recently some shops and fuel stations which are on
their own (not part of another building or site), and I have some
questions. If I tag them simply with amenity=fuel (or
shop=garden_centre, for example), they only show up on the OSM map as a
POI - not the entire area traced. However, the rendering works correctly
if I add the tag building=yes (or landuse=retail, if it is an area of
land, and not a specific building).
I just want to make sure I understand things correctly. Is this the
right way to do things? Although tags such as amenity=fuel can be
applied to entire ways, not just one waypoint, the extra tag such as
building=yes or landuse=* is still necessary in order for it to show up
correctly on OSM's map (and presumably other renderers)? According to my
experiments, it seems that is the case, but I want to make sure I'm not
wrong.
On the other hand, is it preferable to just tag the building on its own,
the are of land with landuse=* on its own, and then place a separate
node in the middle with amenity=fuel? Or not?
I've been searching the OSM wiki, and the descriptions of various tags
are great, but can't seem to find a page with best practice for things
such as the above - although there might be one somewhere.
Hope the above makes sense.
Sebastian
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