Rest area, how to tag them correctly

wyo · 2010-10-11 11:47:14

I've stumbled via Keepright into a discussion about how to tag a rest area. IMO even the Wiki page doesn't allow for appropriate tagging, a highway should never be used as a border of an area. In sample areas I've lookup some and found "landuse=railway" for railroad areas and IMO this is exactly what's IMO right. A rest area should be tagged as "landuse=service".

Wyo
PS Could anybody forward this to the appropriate ML and link the thread back into the forum

MHohmann · 2010-10-12 06:34:43

This sounds reasonable to me. Although a rest area is typically associated to a highway, it is not a highway on its own, but an area which contains several highways / parking aisles, buildings and so on. So it certainly makes sense to tag it as landuse.

Just a small remark: I think it should rather be "landuse=services".

wyo · 2010-10-12 07:35:18

MHohmann wrote:

Just a small remark: I think it should rather be "landuse=services".

I've long thought if "service" or "services" should be used. IMO landuse identifies a single area and therefore a singular name should be used (as most of other landuse=*). Yet many people think more of several objects of landuse type on this area, therefore "services" should be used. I'm undecided what's better.

Wyo

Tordanik · 2010-10-12 10:56:02

Somewhere in the tag there needs to be a "highway". There are many other types of services that this feature isn't about at all. So call it (whatever)=highway_services.

I also don't think that "(whatever)"should be "landuse". In practice, highway=services is used like an amenity tag - for example, most uses of highway=services are on nodes, and landuse shouldn't be used on nodes!

Therefore, I suggest amenity=highway_services.

Last edited by Tordanik (2010-10-12 10:56:52)

wyo · 2010-10-12 11:58:17

Tordanik wrote:

...most uses of highway=services are on nodes ...

Well it's perfectly fine to use "highway=services" on highway nodes as similar "railway=services" for railroad nodes etc. Yet for areas enclosures, landuse is IMO best. Sure instead of "landuse=services", "landuse=highway_services" might be equally well.

Wyo

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