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

[Anders Torger]

So your advice is to actually skip the parent relation object, and thus 
leave the parts separate and related implicitly just by shared borders 
and having the same name? Ok, fine by me.

I certainly agree with you that data users probably won't turn complex 
patterns into something meaningful, as there is no real standard 
documentation of how to map things, just a wiki of soft and incomplete 
"advice", and lots of dead-end methods that never catched on. I rather 
avoid wasting time on using/inventing yet another of those dead-end 
methods. I think a better way would be a well-documented OSM-standard 
where the standards organization on itself figure out needs and take the 
lead rather than anonymous individual mappers like myself must invent 
own methods for needs that are really quite basic. But that just won't 
happen, so I know that I'm probably just wasting my time mapping at this 
detail level. But the OSM way is to let mappers take the lead and 
renderers (maybe) come after, I think it's a very BAD way now when OSM 
is as large as it is, but it's the way it is, so I'm in a take it or 
leave it situation. I enjoy mapping and OSM is the only free alternative 
there is.

On 2020-12-12 12:43, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> My strong advise is not to make this more complicated than it is and
> especially not cargo cult some complex data model in the hope that
> data users will turn this into something meaningful - they won't.