<div dir="ltr">Yep,<div>although you do see lots of natural=wood and natural=water overlapping. I usually see this as a temporary hack until someone wants to put in the effort of creating a relation with a hole in it and moving the tags there.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:52, Sam Wilson <<a href="mailto:sam@samwilson.id.au">sam@samwilson.id.au</a>> wrote:<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>Yes, good point. And equally, it'd be unlikely for <tt>natural=wood</tt>
      and <tt>natural=scrub</tt> to overlap.<br>
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    <div>On 8/10/21 8:36 am, Adam Horan wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">That's probably a good rule of thumb, although with
        the addition of same type and 'level'. 
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        <div>Admin boundaries overlap and nest all the time, but you
          wouldn't normally expect two of the same type and level to
          overlap.</div>
        <div>LGA within State within Country etc</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:31,
          Sam Wilson <<a href="mailto:sam@samwilson.id.au" target="_blank">sam@samwilson.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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            <p>My understanding is that areas should not overlap only
              where they are of a similar type. Areas of <tt>natural=wood</tt>
              and <tt>boundary=national_park</tt> aren't similar and so
              it's fine for them to overlap.<br>
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            <div>On 8/10/21 6:25 am, Adam Horan via Talk-au wrote:<br>
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                  <div>"Where something like the boundaries of a State
                    Park and a forested area are not the same."</div>
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                  I'd say that this is common and expected, and should
                  be handled with separate areas.</div>
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                <div>I feel it's very much the old style of mapping to
                  put 'natural=wood' on a park admin boundary.</div>
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                <div>Adam</div>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at
                  08:38, <<a href="mailto:forster@ozonline.com.au" target="_blank">forster@ozonline.com.au</a>>
                  wrote:<br>
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                <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
                  If you were told this by changeset comment, can you
                  give the URL?<br>
                  Tony<br>
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                  > Hi everyone<br>
                  > I am a basic OSM editor. I usually just correct
                  obvious map errors I find<br>
                  > while hiking/cycling. I have tried to be a little
                  more ambitious every now<br>
                  > and then, but I have found it can be quite
                  difficult to keep other editors<br>
                  > happy with what I do.<br>
                  ><br>
                  > My question is: Can you have overlapping 'areas'?
                  I was told by someone in<br>
                  > this group that you can't.<br>
                  ><br>
                  > For example; Where something like the boundaries
                  of a State Park and a<br>
                  > forested area are not the same. This is the issue
                  where I was told that you<br>
                  > can't do that.<br>
                  > This makes no logical sense to me as this happens
                  all the time.<br>
                  ><br>
                  > I would appreciate some guidance on this issue.<br>
                  > Kind regards<br>
                  > Andrew Parker<br>
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