Totally agree with Rob on this. POI is reliable for now and add other
metadata in the comment/description fields.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 6:05 AM Rob H Warren <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Richard,
>
> I think the POI is the way to go; the OSM stack doesn't differentiate
> between feature and geometry which makes modelling uncertainty difficult.
>
> Suggestion: overload the comment, fixme and description tags with whatever
> data you have; it gives you something to work with later on as the stack
> gets more sophisticated. -R
>
>
> > i somewhat arbitrarily started using a node
> > tagged
> >
> > historic=raceway
> > name="....."
> >
> > when all i have is a location without an actual
> > footprint for a historic raceway. anyone have
> > any comments/suggestions?
> >
> > richard
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