[OSM-newbies] Which relation?

[Russ Phillips]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Jonathan
Bennett<openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:
> Claudius wrote:
>> Opposite to Andre i suggest reusing the existing outer ways (fence etc.)
>> and creating a boundary-relation. The wiki article in fact solely
>> focusses on the use for administrative boundaries, but you could simply
>> extend it to site boundaries as well. I would suggest these tags for the
>> relation:
>
> I'd disagree. Boundary relations are for administrative borders that may
> or may not coincide with a physical feature. If you want to specify what
> an area is used for, use a closed way and tag that. If you want to show
> the enclosure around an area, use a separate way and tag it barrier=*
>
> Only use a relation to describe a feature where it *can't* be described
> any other way.

Currently, it's not using a relation. Here's a link, which I forgot to
include before:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.034505&lon=-2.173069&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF

One of the reasons I didn't use a relation is that it doesn't have a
fence the whole way around, so one of the ways that would have been in
the relation was untagged, and JOSM wouldn't let me add it to to a
relation.

Russ