Proposal:Relation:system

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System Relation
Proposal status: Draft (under way)
Proposed by: Panther37
Tagging: type=system
Applies to: relation
Definition: The system relation is used to make multiple things work as one system.
Statistics:

Draft started: 2012-04-23

Relations of type system are used to represent complex arrays of things as one system.

Simple points are mapped in OSM. If you have two things they are mapped seperately. However, this model only works for seperate things. If one thing has multiple parts, we put them together in a relation. For all of the multiple parts to function as one, they are a system.

Tags

Key Value Explanation
type system indicates this Relation represents a system
system highway | aeroway | railway | etc. indicates what is included in the system. If all nodes are the same, node tag should be added too (example: highway:traffic_signals)

Members

Way or Node Role Recurrence? Explanation
node none No uses yet

Usage

The intended use of systems is this:

Examples

None

Tagging

  • It is suggested to apply all tags which describe the system to the parts, and not to the system for better compatibility.

See also