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

Ture Pålsson ture at turepalsson.se
Tue Dec 15 05:15:46 UTC 2020



> 14 dec. 2020 kl. 19:06 skrev Ture Pålsson <ture at turepalsson.se> (that’s me!):
> 
> I think it would be good to keep the set of possible values for the ’type’ tag small, so I’d like to propose another level of indirection; something like
> 
>  type=named_area, named_area=natural, natural=wetland, name=Peter’s Pot

After having slept on it, make that

    type=named_area, natural=wetland, wetland=Peter’s Pot

I.e, skip the named_area=natural bit. I’m not too fond of OSM:s ”rootless” tag structure, but we seem to be doing ok with it everywhere else…
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