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

[stevea]

To share a local varietal, we have "Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park" and we have "Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (Fall Creek Unit)," slightly non-contiguous but managed together.  In the real world (too) this sort of "grouping between things that belong together or are part of a same thing" can be tricky (in naming, categorizing...).

It appears California "decided to choose to at least do something about this..." (in this case) and threw a dart at the board, which stuck.  This is but one example of "grouping, naming, categorizing..." but it illustrates "throw a dart, locally, if nothing else has been done" and it might stick.  We're doing that here.  Some darts haven't even yet been thought of.

A natural area grouping naming concept is an excellent starting place, even discovering that "there isn't one" (in OSM) doesn't mean one couldn't be spun up.  It could, sounds like it should.  It sounds like it's in the earlier stages of happening, here, now, offline with some (many?), in imaginations at least.  Good.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

(Like my oldest sister the artist says, "start with a concept.")

> On Dec 15, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am Di., 15. Dez. 2020 um 08:51 Uhr schrieb Anders Torger <anders at torger.se>:
> The simple answer is that this naming concept is fundamentally broken, and that we need to have some other concept, such as fuzzy areas.
> 
> 
> I agree that there isn't really a concept for naming larger (natural) areas. In OSM you can map areas of the same kind of thing and add the names for the smallest entities (e.g. forest) to it, but you cannot add a name for several parts of a forest together (when the parts themselves have names). Naming works for administrative entities, countries, cities etc, but not for geographic entities. 
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
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