Wrong presets for areas

[hikemaniac]

When I was mapping an area, iD suggested the preset "footway" even though the OSM wiki page of the tag clearly points out that it shouldn't be used on polygons. When I checked on some other tags I found out that iD has also got area presets for more tags that shouldn't be applied on polygons

• highway=footway
• amenity=charging_station
• amenity=bicycle_repair_station
• barrier=toll_booth
• amenity=waste_basket
• natural=cave_entrance
• leisure=bird_hide

Is it the wiki that is outdated or are there wrong presets in iD?

[bhousel]

Thanks for the report - I reformatted your comment to be a list.
It looks like from the wiki that toll booth and cave entrance can be mapped as areas, all the rest of them probably should have area geometry removed.

[hikemaniac]

Oh yeah, it seems like I mixed up natural=cave_entrance. I'm not so sure about barrier=toll_booth though. The "How to map"-section says nothing about areas and it doesn't really make sense to me, because both renderers and routing engines will interpret this tag as a barrier where a fee is collected around the mapped area. Well, I think we should leave it as is until the problem is solved in the wiki.

[bhousel]

FWIW, I do see toll booths regularly mapped as areas: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/56054320

barrier is an interesting key because it can really be used for linear ways or for areas - in the above example it's an area because it has the building=yes tag.

[hikemaniac]

OK, that makes sense. Thank you! 😊👍

[bhousel]

Closing here, thanks @willemarcel . 👍

@hikemaniac I saw you added leisure=bird_hide to the list, but I think in this case the wiki is wrong. It says not to map as an area, but shows a picture of a shed, and page describes that it's ok to map on structures and buildings. When this Bird Hide preset is assigned to an area in iD, we add a building=yes tag (which the user can change to something more specific, or choose to remove if it's not really a building).