[Tagging] Interpreting "One feature, one OSM-object"

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 23:53:40 BST 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think "one feature, one object" is usually used in the other
> direction: you don't tag the boundary name=x and also put it in a
> boundary relation with name=x. You don't put a fast_food node in the
> middle of a building that only holds the fast food place; you put the
> fast_food tags on the building (or, even better, the parcel of land
> owned by the company, which includes the parking lot). Having a
> boundary relation and a node at the city center violates this
> guideline, but is a valid exception because the node carries other
> information about where the city center is.

Yep. That makes sense.



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