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

Peter Elderson pelderson at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 07:28:36 UTC 2020


+1 if the fence is truly the perimeter of the area.
I seldom find a fence placed exactly at the perimeter of the area. In
practice, the fence is almost always placed a variable distance inside the
area.

Peter Elderson


Op do 31 dec. 2020 om 08:03 schreef Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>:

> For cases where the whole perimeter is fenced (or walled), I prefer
> avoiding overlapping ways on the same shape. So I would create a way and
> tag it as barrier=fence/wall and then create a type=multipolygon relation
> having the first way as an outer member and tag the relation as landuse=*.
>
> If there is a gate that is large enough to be mapped as a linear way, then
> we can have two ways, one for the fence/wall and the other for the gate,
> then combine them all into the aforementioned multipolygon relation for the
> landuse.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 8:06 AM Marc_marc, <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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