[Tagging] objects mixing linear and area (for ex fence and landuse)

[Warin]

A fence will have some entry, usually a gate.

So the fence will not completely surround the area, so a multipolygon 
relation would be used with both fence and gate/s to map the area.


On 31/12/20 11:22 am, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> You could add a way on top of another closed way which shares the same 
> nodes for part of it. I'd commonly do this for a leisure=park which 
> might be fenced off on one side.
>
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 11:06, Marc_marc <marc_marc at mailo.com 
> <mailto:marc_marc at mailo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     what's the best to tag a fenced area ?
>
>     previously I used fenced=yes to describe a *characteristic*
>     of the area (the area has a fence at the outer, the object
>     isn't a fence it-self)
>     but the wiki said it's depreciated in favor of barrier=fence.
>     but that's not the same : barrier=fence is a linear feature at the
>     outer, mixing 2 features in one object is a bad pratice.
>     and nothing said if the fence is mapped as an area or not (area=no
>     is not usable in this case, due the mix with an area on the same
>     object)
>
>     so, what's the best ?
>     - restore fenced=yes as a valid tag for a characteristic of one objet
>     (and keep of course barrier=fence for the fence it-self) ?
>     or
>     - move the area feature to a relation ? (we don't tag for a tools, but
>     are the tools able of having a linear geometry for the barrier and a
>     relation describing an area using the previous linear geometry?)
>     or
>     - move the linear feature to a relation ?
>     or
>     - if the number of node is small, create 2 ways, one for the linear,
>     another for the area ?
>     or
>     - take an aperitif, it's New Year's Eve ? :)
>
>     Regards,
>     Marc
>
>

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