Dear Jim and Thomas

It is fine to use flag_meanings to encode a string-valued field, as Jim
suggests. It's been suggested before in other contexts.  This is a kind of
data compression and I don't think a special standard name is needed for it.
It's still an area_type field.

Best wishes

Jonathan
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