[OSM-newbies] newbies Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10

[Aspen Swartz]

>
> 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.
>
> --
> Jonathan (Jonobennett)

> 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
>
>

I still don't understand this issue.  For a small playground, drawing
another way in order to tag the area as a playground isn't so bad, but
for a larger thing, it seems quite tedious to re-draw each meaning of
the way- as well as inaccurate.  If the fence is irregular, and has
been mapped carefully, it seems like it would be more accurate and
easier to somehow copy the way that is the fence, add the last side,
and tag it as the playground boundary.  Is there a way to duplicate
ways and re-tag them with a different attribute?

(I am afraid the terms I'm using aren't quite correct... I hope my
meaning has come across).

Aspen (eulochon)