On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:32:04AM +0700, Peter Hendricks wrote:
4 posts in the ground with some kind of overhanging roof. People will seek shelter under the roof from either sun or rain. These are found all over Thailand on road sides. If it rains you can often even get your bike in there, if there aren't too many people. There are no bus stops in the country side, but people may wait there for public transport. You can't call it a building, as it doesn't have walls.
Whatever you call it, it should not show in the map as a camp ground, as even alpine shelters have nothing to do with that.
OK, what about this? Replace amenity=shelter with tourism=lean_to in the default style. Then, no amenity=shelter would show up in the map. If you can suggest a sensible Garmin symbol code for amenity=shelter, we can add that as well.
"Service station" is probably not a good description, as that implies a place run by a petrol company. For the POI I would suggest "Exit Services" if the area doesn't have a name, but others may have better ideas.
What about just Services? That would work a little better in other languages than English languages, because the OSM tag is highway=services. "Services" can be understandable in more languages than "exit", and the "exit" does not seem to add much value in English either. Best regards, Marko