<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
a site relation is made for wind farm sites because the space<br>
between the turbines is sometimes used for other things (e.g. grazing), <br>
and not to include other elements such as the workers' parking, the <br>
restaurant where they eat and the shop they visit<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My own mapping practice while canoe camping often involves mapping collections of back-country tenting sites scattered around the shores of remote lakes, with significant wilderness and water between them. Each tent site is marked on the ground by a numbered post and sometimes a fire-ring and trampled ground, but there is no delimited boundary of each tenting place that would warrant a polygon -- I just place a node at the marker post. These tenting sites have a reference number and are all managed as a unit by the enclosing park or forest service with a website, unified reservation system, and policies that apply to all of the individual tenting sites. I would think that a site-relation would be a good way to model these dispersed pitches as there isn't a meaningful polygon that could contain them.<br><br></div><div>Examples:<br><ul><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1596693623#map=16/44.6351/-72.5200">Green River Reservoir</a> VT, USA -- very dispersed tent pitches around a large lake that is used for other purposes as well. The entire <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/14169842#map=13/44.6442/-72.5202">protected area</a> is not a "camp site" itself, but does include many pitches. Modeling these pitches into a single site relation would be an improvement over their current modeling as unlinked individual tourism=camp_site.<br><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9989526004#map=16/44.3815/-74.3182"><br></a></li><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9989526004#map=16/44.3815/-74.3182">Saint Regis Pond</a>, NY, USA -- Very dispersed tent pitches around a small lake. Each lake and most ponds in the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6365015#map=12/44.3893/-74.3524">Saint Regis Canoe area</a> few pitches on it, but the entire protected area is not a "camp site" itself. Modeling
these pitches into a single site relation with their shared operator and policies would be an improvement over
their current modeling as unlinked individual tourism=camp_site.</li></ul></div></div></div>