[talk-au] Academic question about tags

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 10:23:54 UTC 2021


On 29/4/21 7:49 pm, Bob Cameron wrote:
> On reading about OSM feature data structures
>
> Are there ever any problems "mixing/adding" what would commonly be 
> separate tags for the one entity?
>
> eg
>
> amenity=pub plus tourism=hotel plus shop=alcohol
>
> highway=rest_area plus amenity=parking plus tourism=camp_site
>
> I am thinking in terms of rendering, mkgmap or other downstream uses. 
> I guess there would be an icon/avatar precedence issue but I wonder 
> what else.
>
> tnx



PS lots more on the wiki..

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/One_feature,_one_OSM_element




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