[Tagging] Names on relations and not component ways

dies38061 at mypacks.net dies38061 at mypacks.net
Sat Jan 5 18:47:37 GMT 2013


Thanks -- the rationale embodied in the sentence quoted from Toby Murray below was what drove me to use a relation:

"It allows one real world object to be represented by one object in OSM and reduces duplication of tags on component ways."

--ceyockey


-----Original Message-----
>From: Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 5, 2013 1:17 PM
>To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tagging] Names on relations and not component ways
>
>
>Large river tagging is kind of a mess so I'm not quite sure where I
>stand on this. But we also use relations to map lakes that are too big
>to be mapped with a single way because of the 2,000 node limit. It
>seems like rivers are in a similar situation and the use of a relation
>does not seem completely out of place. It allows one real world object
>to be represented by one object in OSM and reduces duplication of tags
>on component ways.
>
>Toby
>



More information about the Tagging mailing list