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ref is sometimes used to label an entrance into a large building or parking area. (If the label is used in addresses, consider using addr:unit=* instead.)

agency is often used instead to reduce ambiguity. For example, Cincinnati-area routes are tagged network=SORTA instead of network=Metro. Some ambiguity

trails, unofficial tent camping sites, and other features found in wilderness areas that are not officially maintained or endorsed by the land management agency

this available in other languages. Note that translation efforts in other areas of the project are equally important if not more so. Unlike Wikipedia, we

by humans. For general information on mapping/classifying land areas see Land use and areas of natural land. See Landcover for general information on tagging

be added to the object of a point of interest; the polygon representing an area (building or campus/site outline) if the address is valid for the whole object

otherwise demarcated area. Occasionally the boundary=* tag is used on linear ways to indicate borders with a name distinct from either area that it separates

lanes which turns are allowed from a given lane Relations/Proposed/Area to define areas between ways and lanes (linear crossover), virtual and physical dividers

mapping the area of a highway=footway, and which to use is dependent upon the context of the area you're mapping. If you are mapping the area of a footway

and support. Tourism features can be represented using either a node or an area, and can be combined with other tags. For example, a building that is a museum

advisable for mappers to map populated places as areas but to map them as nodes. Data users should not expect the area geometries of populated places to have a

boats. leisure miniature_golf A place or area that you can play miniature golf. leisure nature_reserve Protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna

with an area instead of using a node. Cities often do not have a verifiable outline though and different interpretations of the meaning of areas representing

on a road) As an area, e. g. amenity=pub. If the amenity shares a boundary with a building, both features may be mapped on a single area element. In some

discouraged unless you really know what you are doing! Landcover Land use and areas of natural land Conservation Geological Category:Key descriptions for group

The area=yes tag indicates that a closed way represents an area (polygon); conversely, area=no indicates that it represents a linear feature (polyline)

Platforms are placed next to the street. Both are members of the relation stop_area and route relations. A node, on the way which the bus travels on, at the

Tree-covered area (a 'forest' or 'wood'). Used by some mappers to tag only certain woodland areas with limited or no forestry management, but often used

not an area. When the service road has an occasional widening, e.g. the paved area in an industrial estate, that can be mapped as a filled area by drawing

local residential area is not to put a name tag on the landuse=residential area unless absolutely applicable, since it only signifies an area where residences