[Tagging] type=bounday

[Kevin Kenny]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 5:52 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Am Fr., 25. März 2022 um 07:15 Uhr schrieb David Marchal via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org>:
>
>> 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.
>>
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>
> +1, it should say that "type" should not be put on simple polygons,
> because it is a tag reserved for relations.
>
> I'd have mildly preferred `type=multipolygon`, but didn't speak up because
`boundary` and `multipolygon` are nearly synonymous nowadays, and I can
live with either.


-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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