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Here you'll find some personal notes I've gathered, or am still gathering, to ease and quicken creating and correctly tagging common features on OpenStreetMap.
If you can't find what you want to map here, have a look at How to map a.
For sources of water to be used (mainly) by humans. Water sources to used by
animals require a different tag
(amenity=watering_place).
Likewise for water to be used to refill RV's deposits and the like
(amenity=water_point).
drinking_water=*:
after defining the type of water source, you may specify whether the water is
drinkable. Apart from the obvious yes and no, conditional means "don't
know" or "drink at your own risk".
drinking_water:legal=*
(optional): additionally, you may use to specify whether the water source is
officially (un)safe to drink.
Other possibly interesting tags to take a look at are
natural=water and
natural=spring.
amenity=drinking_water:
specifies the feature is a simple source of water. Check the documentation
for examples.
drinking_water=*
(optional; yes): specifies whether the water is drinkable. From my
understanding, together with
amenity=drinking_water,
not using this tag is the same as using drinking_water=yes.
amenity=fountain
(PT):
specifies the feature is a fountain. Check the documentation for examples.
natural=water
(optional): commonly used together to specify bodies of water next, around,
under, etc the fountain.
Features related to waste processing, such as of trash and recyclables.
amenity=recycling:
specifies the feature is of some sort of recycling type.
recycling_type=container:
specifies the feature is a recycling container, similar to this one or
this one.
location=* (optional):
specifies where the feature is located, i.e., on the surface, under the
surface, etc. Two common ones are
location=overground
(pic) and
location=underground
(pic). It seems to be optional in the case of
location=overground,
as it seems to me to be implied by
amenity=recycling.
recycling:<material>=yes/no: a list of materials can be found on
amenity=recycling,
and as is mentioned on that page, if recycling:X=* is omitted, then it is
assumed to be no, as if recycling:X=no was present; unless a tag of a
supergroup of X is present and yes, in which case it's as if
recycling:X=yes was present.
By "big three" I mean paper, plastic, and glass:
Paper container ("papelão"): alongside paper itself, all kinds of paper-related and paper-derived materials, like cardboard, can be deposited.
Plastic container ("embalão"): all kinds of plastic and metal materials can be deposited. These include plastic bottles, plastic bags, tin cans, milk cartons, ...
Glass container ("vidrão"): all kinds of glass objects, like glass bottles, glass cups, etc, can be deposited.
Some of these containers also have batteries containers ("pilhão") next to them, where you can deposit used batteries.
The correct recycling:<material>=yes/no tags, based on amenity=recycling
(PT), are the
following:
recycling:plastic=yes
recycling:plastic_bags=yes
recycling:plastic_bottles=yes
recycling:plastic_packaging=yes
recycling:cans=yes
recycling:PET=yes
recycling:paper=yes
recycling:paper_packaging=yes
recycling:beverage_cartons=yes
recycling:cardboard=yes
recycling:cartons=yes
recycling:magazines=yes
recycling:newspaper=yes
recycling:glass=yes
recycling:glass_bottles=yes
NOTE: I think styrofoam is allowed in the plastic container. However, I'm not sure it actually is, nor if it's implied by the tags above.
And in case there's a batteries basket, include also the following:
recycling:batteries=yes
recycling:car_batteries=no
The correct recycling:<material>=yes/no tags, based on amenity=recycling
(PT), are the
following:
recycling:belts=yes
recycling:clothes=yes
NOTE: Footwear is accepted, according to the comments, even though there's
no recycling:footwear=yes or similar. I guess it's implied by
recycling:clothes=yes.
Use
amenity=waste_disposal
if the feature is a container, or
amenity=waste_basket
if it is a basket.
Additionally, specify the accepted kind of waste with
waste=*:
waste=trash;organic;dog_excrement
If there's an ashtray attached, you can include cigarettes:
waste=trash;organic;dog_excrement;cigarettes
You may also include
location=*.
leisure=picnic_table:
specifies the feature is picnic table.
covered=* (optional):
you may include this if it's covered, either completely or partially.
material=* (optional):
specifies the material it's made of.
amenity=bench:
specifies the feature is a bench.
backrest=* (optional): specifies whether the bench has or not a backrest.
material=* (optional): specifies the material it's made of.
amenity=bbq:
specifies the feature is a BBQ grill.
fuel=* (optional): the type
of material you can use as fuel.
covered=* (optional;
no): whether it's covered, either partially or completely.
tourism=viewpoint:
specifies the feature is a viewpoint.
name=* (optional?):
specifies the name of the viewpoint.
direction=*
(optional): the direction of the view; e.g., 0-360 is "all-round".
amenity=prep_school
seems to be the most appropriate, but for more info see also Education
features.
Some other possible options:
education=centre:
used for specialized areas.office=tutoring:
looks like it's used for an office itself, not where students go to study?Tags common to all, from McDonald's:
amenity=fast_food
brand:wikidata=Q38076
brand=McDonald's
cuisine=burger
name=McDonald's
I believe all McDonald's have takeaway, so:
takeaway=yes
Some common tags that vary:
outdoor_seating=yes/no
smoking=outside
drive_through=yes/no
opening_hours=*
wheelchair=yes/no/...
Don't forget to add addr:*=* and payment:*=*.
Overpass query to find McDonald's restaurants with no brand:
[out:json][timeout:300];
(
nwr["name"~"^mcdonald.?s", i]({{bbox}});
nwr["brand"~"^mcdonald.?s", i]({{bbox}});
nwr["operator"~"^mcdonald.?s", i]({{bbox}});
);
out body;
>;
out skel qt;
TODO: amenity=cafe, amenity=bakery, shop=confectionery, or something else?
TODO: amenity=cafe, amenity=bakery, shop=confectionery, or something else?
Use ref:vatin, e.g. ref:vatin=PT123456789.
First, in this order, select the "from" way, the intersecting ("via") node, and
the "to" way. Then, "Presets">"Relations">"Turn restriction". Select the
correct restriction (e.g. no_u_turn) and hit "New relation". On the lower
left list of objects, select the "from" way and change its role to "from" (and
similarly to the "via" node and the "to" way). Hit "Ok" and you're done.