> a site relation is made for wind farm sites because the space > between the turbines is sometimes used for other things (e.g. grazing), > and not to include other elements such as the workers' parking, the > restaurant where they eat and the shop they visit >
My own mapping practice while canoe camping often involves mapping collections of back-country tenting sites scattered around the shores of remote lakes, with significant wilderness and water between them. Each tent site is marked on the ground by a numbered post and sometimes a fire-ring and trampled ground, but there is no delimited boundary of each tenting place that would warrant a polygon -- I just place a node at the marker post. These tenting sites have a reference number and are all managed as a unit by the enclosing park or forest service with a website, unified reservation system, and policies that apply to all of the individual tenting sites. I would think that a site-relation would be a good way to model these dispersed pitches as there isn't a meaningful polygon that could contain them. Examples: - Green River Reservoir <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1596693623#map=16/44.6351/-72.5200> VT, USA -- very dispersed tent pitches around a large lake that is used for other purposes as well. The entire protected area <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/14169842#map=13/44.6442/-72.5202> is not a "camp site" itself, but does include many pitches. Modeling these pitches into a single site relation would be an improvement over their current modeling as unlinked individual tourism=camp_site. <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9989526004#map=16/44.3815/-74.3182> - Saint Regis Pond <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9989526004#map=16/44.3815/-74.3182>, NY, USA -- Very dispersed tent pitches around a small lake. Each lake and most ponds in the Saint Regis Canoe area <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6365015#map=12/44.3893/-74.3524> few pitches on it, but the entire protected area is not a "camp site" itself. Modeling these pitches into a single site relation with their shared operator and policies would be an improvement over their current modeling as unlinked individual tourism=camp_site.
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