[Tagging] type=bounday

[David Marchal]

Hello!

As the proposal author, I would say that type=boundary being mandatory also for simple polygons is a remnant from a previous similar proposal, which only allowed relations. The approved tagging scheme allows plain polygons, for which a type=* tag is not supposed to be mandatory, so I would say the wiki should be clarified to state that type=boundary is only mandatory when the boundary=forest entity is a relation, and not for simple polygons.

I'll amend the wiki accordingly.

Kind regards.

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nwastra nwastra <nwastra at gmail.com> schrieb am Freitag, 25. März 2022 um 06:20:

> The tag boundary=forest is approved
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dforest
>
> I notice in the 'How to map’ section that type=boundary and boundary=forest are both mandatory.
>
> Previously when mapping protected area boundary relations, I added the tag type=boundary and boundary=protected_area
>
> If the boundary was a simple single line polygon and a relation was not needed, the tags are added to the line forming the ring (ie not a multipolygon kind of geometry),
> and I was of the opinion that the boundary=forest can be added but type=boundary tag was not added
>
> ie the type tag is only added to relations.
>
> Am I misinformed and should be adding both type=boundary and boundary=forest to simple polygons of delimited forests that don’t require a relation as well as those that are a multipolygon kind of geometry needing to be mapped as a relation.
>
> The above wiki link is not clear to me in this regard.
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