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

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Does each bog & marsh have it's own name, or are just different surfaces
inside one big named wetland?

Thanks

Graeme

PS & please don't get frustrated & give up on trying to make progress!


On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 02:11, Anders Torger <anders at torger.se> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was on this list a while back expressing some frustration over
> limitations when tagging nature and thought about getting involved in a
> process for change, but I came to realize that it's not feasible for me
> in my current life situation, so I've decided to continue be a normal
> mapper as before, doing what I can do with features that exist today.
>
> Anyway, if to be a mapper at all, I still like to solve some of my
> naming issues in the best/least bad ways possible today. I'm currently
> mapping a national park in Sweden, Muddus. It's in Laponia and consists
> of mighty wetlands and old forest. These wetlands are named, like is
> common in Sweden and Sami lands. For us navigating in wildlife, names in
> nature are important.
>
> A wetland polygon can be named in OSM, so the situation is better than
> for example for named slopes (also common). However, a wetland here can
> consist of both bog and marsh (and it's important to make the
> difference, since one is easy to walk on, the other not so much). That's
> two different natural types and thus can't be in the same multipolygon
> (as outers).
>
>
>
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