<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am So., 14. Feb. 2021 um 21:42 Uhr schrieb Bert -Araali- Van Opstal <<a href="mailto:bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com">bert.araali.afritastic@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Verdana">Is this a role or a guideline then, not
clear to me, how do we call it?</font></p>
<p><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element</a></p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>I don't recall if this was discussed, but the requirement to have only one "main" tag was introduced just "recently" (less than 2 years ago) to this page: <br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=One_feature%2C_one_OSM_element&type=revision&diff=1873923&oldid=1873154">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=One_feature%2C_one_OSM_element&type=revision&diff=1873923&oldid=1873154</a></div><div><br></div><div>The rule is "one feature should be represented only by one element in OSM", and one element means a way, a node or a relation. This rule still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, for example you could still have the area of a city mapped as place=city on a polygon and at the same time have a node with place=city for the same city, if you argue that this means the centre of a city. It all depends on what we agree that the tags represent, and what we consider a "feature". </div><div><br></div><div>Having only one main tag on an object would be a different rule, and I find it somehow misleading to "hide" this under the headline "one feature one element". <br></div><div><br></div><div>Clearly the one tag-rule is not currently followed, you can find millions of objects tagged as building=* plus something like amenity=* or shop=*, office=* etc. or barrier=* together with tags for an area, like landuse, amenity etc.</div><div>If you look at the combinations of man_made=* there are also 1,67% combinations with highway (what's that?). 0,89% with natural, 0,85% with amenity, 0,77% with historic, 0,55% with barrier, 0,52% with power, etc. <br></div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/man_made#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/man_made#combinations</a> To be fair, the paragraph says "ideally", so it is not a strict rule, more a suggestion.<br></div><br><div></div><div>You could also say: "phone=*" means a telephone connection, and then this tag, normally a property, becomes a "feature". Or addr:housenumber could be seen as a property, or as a feature, depending on your interpretation and on the context (other tags).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Martin<br></div></div>