On Wednesday 24 October 2018, Bren Barnes wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Research_statio >n
It is not quite clear what criteria qualify a place as a research station based on your proposal. You might in particular want to consider the distinction from things like military outposts, park ranger stations in nature reserves, weather stations and similar. In the Antarctic the situation is mostly clear due to the legal background but elsewhere many such stations are multi-purpose. It is also not clear if this is meant as a supplemental tag to populated place tags or if as a replacement for those. As a supplemental tag it seems fine provided there are clear criteria, as a main tag given the wide range of research stations that exist it would seem a step back from existing populated place tagging. And like with populated places since in most cases research stations have a well defined center but not a well defined outline it makes much more sense to map them with a node than with a polygon. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
