Add power=plant to area creation rules

[joconnor-ecaa]

Posting an issue as instructed by https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Areas. My use case involves querying for objects within the area of a power plant way.

The area creation rules as specified here include power=station, power=generator, power=sub_station and power=transformer but no power=plant. Most power plants have landuse=industrial but it if the plant is left without a name, no area is created. It also seems that the landuse=industrial tag may be disputed for power plants.

Happy to PR myself if this change is acceptable.

[joconnor-ecaa]

On closer inspection, everything requires a name. I'm guessing this prevents computation over spurious objects?

[mmd-osm]

Fyi: the concept of using hard coded rules to define areas will quite likely disappear later this year, meaning that you will be able to treat every closed object as an area.

[isabellasoldner]

Would it be possible to add power=plant as a interim fix until the code is refactored?

[mmd-osm]

I’d say it’s somewhat unlikely to see this in production in the near future. Probably you need to look into setting up your own overpass instance, or use some alternative approaches.