How would one tag multiple security camera’s mounted on a single pole like on the image below? I currently have 4 different camera’s and one utility_pole, but would like to show they are all connected.
In ID, i create a lamp and the appropriate power pole and the nerge them. Even added the traffic sign attached to the pole. Just be careful if you include the facing, use the <object>:direction key to indicate which one you are referring to.
I think 5 separate nodes are already the best representation of this situation. Just add support=pole to each camera. That this refers to the closest pole is something an application can infer – one of the benefits of a spatial database.
I prefer the “one feature, one element” approach. Using the same node only kind of works if…
there is only one feature of each type (e.g. it would not work with the “4 cameras” example)
features of different types use different keys
there are no additional keys such as height, material, direction or operator which refer to only one of the merged objects.