Hello Anders, I would recommend creating a multipolygon relation (type=multipolygon) with each of the wetland pieces, and set the name= and appropriate natural= and wetland= tags on the relation.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 11:11 AM Anders Torger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was on this list a while back expressing some frustration over > limitations when tagging nature and thought about getting involved in a > process for change, but I came to realize that it's not feasible for me > in my current life situation, so I've decided to continue be a normal > mapper as before, doing what I can do with features that exist today. > > Anyway, if to be a mapper at all, I still like to solve some of my > naming issues in the best/least bad ways possible today. I'm currently > mapping a national park in Sweden, Muddus. It's in Laponia and consists > of mighty wetlands and old forest. These wetlands are named, like is > common in Sweden and Sami lands. For us navigating in wildlife, names in > nature are important. > > A wetland polygon can be named in OSM, so the situation is better than > for example for named slopes (also common). However, a wetland here can > consist of both bog and marsh (and it's important to make the > difference, since one is easy to walk on, the other not so much). That's > two different natural types and thus can't be in the same multipolygon > (as outers). > > Asking on OSM Help website for a solution I got the answer to make a new > containing multipolygon and set the name on that. That would be quite > elegant for sure, but JOSM warns about that, can't have a name without a > type, and if I set the type, say natural=wetland without any subtype, I > get a JOSM warning that I have natural features on top of eachother. If > I still upload it OSM-Carto does render out the name but you can see > that the wetland pattern of the outer polygon is drawn on top of the > contained polygons, so it does not seem to be the way to do it. > > The least bad way I've come up with is to just name all polygons > belonging to the same wetlands the same, and hope for that in the future > smart renderers will understand that polygons with shared borders and > shared name is the same named entity. > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > /Anders > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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