[Talk-GB] Should a place be tagged with a node or area?

[Colin Smale]

Hi Brian, 

On 2017-02-10 12:36, Brian Prangle wrote:

> Hmmmm - that's one way I hadn't thought of. I was thinking of just adding a tag to each boundary relation to indicate membership status along the lines of west_midlands_combined_authority= constituent_member or non-constituent_member as appropriate. It should work just as well and won't fry my brain in trying to build a relation of that complexity

The relations shouldn't be complex, certainly not brain-fryingly so..
Also a single relation for the WMCA would comply with the principle of
"one object in real life is one object in OSM" and give a unique
starting point for users to find the extent and the membership of the
authority. Is "non-constituent membership" limited to LA's in the
vicinity of the West Midlands? Anything to stop e.g. Cornwall Council
from joining, if they so desired? 

> Counties might not be officially required but trying filling in an online address form and see where it gets you if you omit county!

Not really our problem! What county would you enter for Uxbridge?
Middlesex? Or Greater London? 

> And what admin status should we give to Local Economic Partnerships?  My inclination is not to bother mapping them as boundaries but to add tags as above along the lines of LEP= name

LA's can belong to multiple LEPs so this might get messy. Again I would
apply the principle of "one object..." and create a relation for the
LEP, and make the LAs members. This allows the LEPs to overlap without
any ambiguity and "not a semicolon in sight"... 

//colin
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