[Tagging] How to put a name tag on an area with more than one type?

[Anders Torger]

Thanks I'll do it this way then, this actually works and even gets 
rendered, although with OSM-Carto it becomes a name tag in each separate 
part so not exactly beautiful, but the data is there.

/Anders

On 2020-12-11 18:07, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>> Anders Torger <anders at torger.se> hat am 11.12.2020 17:07 geschrieben:
>> 
>> The least bad way I've come up with is to just name all polygons
>> belonging to the same wetlands the same,
> 
> That is widely considered to be the correct way.  It is established
> practice that mapping things like forest, wetland, farmland etc. can
> be split to differentiate tagging (like leaf_type, wetland type, crop
> etc.).  The name tag is then applied to all components.  Same as for
> waterways or roads where you can also split and apply the name to the
> components.
> 
> This also matches the general concept in OSM that names are typically
> local properties and only locally verifiable.  The Rhine river is
> called Rhein in Koblenz but Rhin in Strasbourg and Rijn in Rotterdam.