Good idea to have such a tag, should include diesel for cars, kerosine for heating and propane/butane for cooking that are sold in the same way. I Kenya we have been in areas far away from regular filling stations; there people are selling diesel from drums.
I think shop=fuel is dangerous as it is too close to amenity=fuel (which in my opinion should be shop=fuel). There are more discussions about things tagged as amenity or shop (see for example the discussion about shop=car_storage). On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:20 AM Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to float an idea to get your reactions. Here in Thailand, and > especially in rural areas, there are hundreds of shops that sell motor fuel > in small quantities. Most of the population drive motorbikes which are used > for every sort of transport imaginable. They have a tiny petrol tank, > perhaps 4-5 liters, therefore a short range; they need frequent fill-ups. > To meet this need local individuals have set up small sheds or kiosks from > which they hand pump the small quantities needed. Some shops sell fuel by > the liter bottle, often a whiskey bottle. Such shops are poorly marked, > seldom have any signs indicating their presence and typically offer no > other services. If you live in the area you will know where the fuel shop > is, otherwise they're almost invisible > > At any rate, we're looking for a way to tag these fuel shops in such a way > that they become visible in OSM (and on our GPS units), and will not be > mistaken for a full size fuel service station. Current tagging practice is > to tag them with amenity=fuel and a made up name, for example, Bike petrol > or Drummed fuel. The people doing this are aware of the fact that such > tagging isn't strictly correct, but they understandably want to be able to > find those shops should they run out of fuel. One problem with this > Thailand-centric approach, is that other data consumers are unaware of it. > Another is that the informal names are multiplying rapidly and one mapper's > drummed fuel is another's barreled fuel and another's Bike petrol. Where it > will end is anyone's guess. > > I'm suggesting an addition to the values of the shop key: shop=fuel or > perhaps shop=motor_fuel > > My goal is to standardize the tagging so that at some point these shops > can be eventually rendered on Garmin compatible downloaded maps and hence > made visible. I have done this for my custom Garmin maps and find it a real > asset. > > Here is a photo of such a shop in my neighborhood: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABarreled_fuel_shop.jpg > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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