[Tagging] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.25.0

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On 2/5/20 17:15, Lionel Giard wrote:
> In my usage, i always thought that using a barrier=* + any other main
> tag was wrong and widely accepted (as i saw that it was separated in
> most examples when i started mapping). Thus my method has always been to
> map them separately (one way for the barrier and one way for the other
> main tag, even if they are exactly sharing the same node). This is in
> order to keep the one feature to one object and keep things manageable
> and without ambiguity. Thus to me, all the examples of "barrier=*" (+
> "area=yes" +) "leisure=playground" are a tagging error, that should be
> two separate objects.

JOSM's validator will flag ways that share the same nodes as a warning,
or at least it used to. I think it's just more rubbish in the database
to have one way for the fence and another for an area when they share
the same nodes.

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