[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Cluster

[Friedrich Volkmann]

On 15.01.2015 11:23, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> this is quite generic what has advantages (apllicable to everything) and
> disadvantages (it might often not be clear, to what property the
> "clustering" refers).

What do you mean by "property"? Can you describe an example?

> I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to use the
> approach of islands / archipelago, i.e. have a dedicated, explicit and
> specific tag for the "combined feature" (e.g. several natural=island/islet
> can be together in a multipolygon relation which is tagged natural=archipelago).

Multipolygons require areas. You cannot use them to group nodes (e.g. cave
entrances) or lines (e.g, cliffs).

> In your examples, there could be tags for several lakes:
> natural=lacustrine_district / lake_district or maybe "series_of_lakes"
> (didn't find a good English word for "DE:Seengruppe").
> 
> Didn't find a good one neither for DE:Höhlengruppe (maybe just plural "caves"?)
> 
> DE:Felsengruppe could translate to "natural=range_of_rocks"
> (maybe also the caves could be "range_of_caves"??)

I guess that while writing your message you altready noticed that the number
of new tags would become gigantic.

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