I also saw it used for parking lot that are completely separated (like on
two sides of a big highway) but still part of the "same" parking
technically (like the example of mall parking in different parts separated
by highways). To add to the two area mapped as amenity=parking, there was a
site relation grouping them (site=parking).  ^_^

Le lun. 13 juil. 2020 à 19:04, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Looking back at the history of the site relation, it looks as if the
> concept originated from schools, colleges, universities, airports,  and
> military bases for situations where the objects are not within a well
> defined perimeter. Documented uses include historical sites, even though
> they are not quoted in recent versions of the wiki page.
>
> Reading the wiki versions, I would say the "site" relation is extremely
> vaguely defined.
>
> I would think we are free to make it something useful.
>
> At the risk of repeating myself, I believe there is a need  for something
> like the site relation for a whole array of more or less widely scattered
> objects that belong together. Just a few:
>
>    - non-campus universities, research institutions, schools
>    - the offices of public institutions (city, regional, country
>    governments, the European Union institutions)
>    - archaeological sites (aqueducts, Hadrian's Wall, the Limes in
>    Germany, the Great Wall of China, The Iron Curtain, city walls, former
>    Railways, former canals and other waterways, former underground mines, ...)
>    - power plants (hydro-electric, wind power, ...)
>    - active mines
>    - distributed museums
>
> Volker
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