[Tagging] [Talk-us] IR boundary tagging : is it possible?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

> Am 19/lug/2014 um 10:13 schrieb André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>:
> 
> And there's is a contradictory boundary rule that what was correct one day is decreed invalid the day after.
> So, I would appreciate someone to notify me that all the targets have stopped moving ;-)


you can keep calm, what you have been observing regarding boundary relation definitions in the wiki sounds like the result of wiki fiddling and revert, and what overpass API considers an area (or not) has no influence on our database and the data contained therein. Still what you describe doesn't seem to be the generic definition for an area (I guess not even for Overpass API) but rather sounds like the implementation for a specific use case. There is some fuzzyness regarding areas in osm, agreed, but things are really more complicated as many tags play an important role.

cheers,
Martin