[Tagging] How to put a name tag on an area with more than one type?
Anders Torger
anders at torger.se
Sat Dec 12 11:23:29 UTC 2020
Sorry, I realize I have a followup question. Is this really the right
way?
There's a difference from the Rhine example. With rivers all the
separate parts are tied together with a parent relation of the type
waterway, and the parts have roles like "main_stream".
In the wetland case as described, there is no parent relation at all.
The only thing that ties them together is implicitly by sharing borders
and having the same name tag. It seems to me that an "official" way to
edit should tie them together with a parent relation.
The logical way would be a parent relation with type=wetland (and
actually have the name only there, but no renderer today understands
that, it needs to be on the separate parts as well). What should the
roles be? The most logical way would be to leave role field empty. To
summarize:
Suggested method of how to name a wetland that has more than one
sub-type:
* Prerequisite: each sub-type (marsh, bog etc) is a polygon (or
multipolygon if required,
for example if there's an inner water or forest) which shares segments
with the
neighboring sub-type, ie the wetland is a single entity.
* Put the name on each part, same for all
* Create a relation with type=wetland (no sub-type) and include all
parts with role
field empty, also name this relation with the same name (although no
current
renderer will care)
What do you think about this way? JOSM thinks it's fine at least, I get
no warnings :-).
(Note that there's another case that can be solved with just a single
multipolygon, when there's a single sub-type but the parts are
separated, so each part can be an outer, this is also (quite) common,
although more common for waters and islands than wetlands. The special
thing with the discussed case is that it's a single entity all parts
bordering to the next)
On 2020-12-11 20:55, Anders Torger wrote:
> 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.
>
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