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I want to map a park in an urban area using a multi-polygon (relation). The question is which way should I use to meet community's best practice? I can choose...

  • streets: but some object already mapped (fire_hydrant) will then appear as in the park while they are not.
  • existing addr:interpolation ways: would be perfect but I will need to split some of them, which is not a good practice (I think).
  • create a new way overlapping existing addr:interpolation ways, which does not seem right either.

Thank in advance, Daniel

asked 16 Mar '18, 20:28

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A couple of thoughts - one is that it's sometimes easier to understand a situation if you provide a link to it.

Another is that it might be helpful to map examples of the alternatives over on the dev site https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ . There's no rendering from that but people will be able to see what you mean by looking in an editor.

(16 Mar '18, 21:26) SomeoneElse ♦
(16 Mar '18, 21:51) jfd553

Areas should usually be mapped using their own ways. Don't use unrelated ways as area boundaries, so no street or addr:interpolation ways. You should only share ways when they are actually closely related, so if the park boundary is a wall, you should re-use the way tagged as wall as (part of) the area boundary.

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answered 17 Mar '18, 18:55

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