There is a shop which sells fuel and general farm supplies currently tagged with shop=country_store, it doesn’t show up in searches for gas stations despite having all the right fuel tags. To help searchability I want to add amenity=fuel, is having multiple POI tags going to break anything?
It is usually better to add as a separate node. Even if there are no conflicting tags now, sooner or later there may be one. For an improbable example, wheelchair=no in the store, but wheelchair=yes at the pump
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I agree, in this case I would map the attached gas station as a separate amenity=fuel node from the shop. This “double mapping” for two features operated by one business is not too unusual, as it is typically done for the convenience stores and car washes often attached to gas stations. It’s also what’s often done for e.g. a pharmacy inside a supermarket or drugstore.
As the previous poster alluded to, this mapping style is beneficial because there can often be conflicting attributes between the two. While a different wheelchair value is potentially improbable, it’s quite possible there could be differences in the opening hours or accepted payment methods between the shop and the gas station. And even if there aren’t right now, mapping them separately makes it more consistent with other similar features, and makes the two easier to separate later if there’s a change.
I’ll do it that way then, thanks for the input.