[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - net for sports pitches

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 30 May 2022, at 00:04, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If somthing has a fence along the side, map the thing, and map the fence, as separate objects.  If they share nodes in reality it makes perfect sense for them to share nodes in OSM.


yes, a separate object is of course possible, but it doesn’t mean an attribute “fenced” is to discourage (nor does it imply that an explicit barrier=fence means that the fenced object could not get a fenced=yes property at the same time).
We are doing similar things in other places as well, e.g.
atm=yes on a bank or post office
bridge=yes on a road or railway on a bridge 
sidewalk=yes on a road
bin=yes on a bus stop
and similar, while we can map all of these as features as well,
amenity=atm
man_made=bridge
highway=footway footway=sidewalk 
amenity=waste_basket

IMHO fenced=yes is preferable to adding barrier=fence on the same polygon that is representing the feature itself (mixing different features on the same osm object)

Cheers Martin