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

[Andrew Harvey]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:06 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since it would be almost impossible for a single way along a river to
> be a closed area, you'd need to use a relation to group all the
> boundaries together, you add the boundary name to the relation.

Actually I could be putting all the waterway tags into a relation too
(although it is only proposed at the moment
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Waterway). That
would aleviate my concerns and would be needed to be done anyway for
some rivers which fork but are both the same river.