[Talk-GB] RNLI Dunkirk Memorial

[Andy Townsend]

On 03/09/2019 22:58, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 17:03, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Op di 3 sep. 2019 om 16:06 schreef Michael Booth <boothym at gmail.com>:
>>> Even though the wiki doesn't say you can use historic=memorial on a
>>> relation, I would tag it as that.
> Done; though "historic" seems inapt.
It's a memorial to something that happened in the past, so I can see the 
logic behind "historic" here, but on the more general point it's true 
that OSM's top-level tags are often broad categories that include more 
than the meaning of the original English word (natural, shop, landuse 
all have this to some extent).
>
>> The "type=*" tag on a relation is usually used to
>> indicate what sort of relationship is represented, e.g.
>> type=multipolygon.
> Done, but JOSM protested that "the multipolygon is not closed"

As currently drawn, it's not actually a multipolygon (i.e. one or more 
closed areas with optional holes).  I'd suggest drawing a line around 
the outline of the white area (making the whole thing an area rather 
than three crossed lines).  That'll give anything that wants to make 
sense of what it is more chance of depicting it correctly and will still 
be accurate.

Best Regards,

Andy